• ShaunaTheDead
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    221 year ago

    Yeah but C makes more sense. 0-10 is cold but not freezing, 10-20 is cool, 20-30 is warm, 30-40 is hot, 40+ is “you’re gonna die of heat exposure! Get inside, what are you doing?!” increasing in urgency with the number. If it’s in the negatives, it’s the same as the 40+ except “cold exposure”.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      It makes more sense in terms of our perception. But from a science perspective Klevin Kelvin makes more sense since you can’t go lower than 0 K and negative temperature doesn’t really make sense, since it’d mean something like negative energy.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Negative absolute temperature is a thing. Lasers exhibit negative temperatures when active, i.e. the lasing medium has a negative temperature expressed in Kelvin. Adding more energy doesn’t increase its entropy, it just turns into more laser light. Any such system with bounded entropy can have a negative thermodynamic temperature.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I had a suspicion there was going to be a response like this. Never heard of it but sounds very interesting.
          I doubt I’ll properly understand it without a good YouTube video. I shall embark on a search

      • Robust Mirror
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        31 year ago

        Yeah but from an every day perspective you’ve basically got 250 or so units there for no reason.

    • @CoggyMcFee
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      51 year ago

      I wouldn’t say it corresponds between negative and positive. -20 is already a lot more dangerous than 40.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      F has that too. Below 0, f it’s cold. Above 100, f it’s hot. 0-25 winter sports baby, 25-50 bleh it’s wet and nasty, 50-75 chefs kiss, 75-100 let’s hit the beach.

    • @Perroboc
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      41 year ago

      I’ve always thought it’s like: 0- is freezing, 10 is cold, 20 is ok, 30 is hot, 40+ is hell

    • LazaroFilm
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      21 year ago

      Also 0 is freezing so it can’t snow unless the temperature is below zero.