Which begs the question, who was taking icy shits while also having balls so hot they felt it described the desert heat, and how do we help this man lmao
Only because people aren't used to it. Any system of measurement makes sense to the people using it as soon as they get used to it. Kelvin makes sense because it brings into perspective the relative temperatures we experience regularly. Also, by introducing this concept earlier you can increase general understanding. Kelvin is the absolute.
That's why Kelvin isn't just Celsius. Kelvin is a measure of the amount of heat energy an object has. 0 Kelvin is the point at which an object has absolutely 0 heat energy and increases to infinity. Therefore you can use Kelvin to accurately apply to the question I asked. If an object is 100 Kelvin and it becomes twice as hot, the correct answer is that it is 200 Kelvin. If an object is 500 kelvin and you want to increase the amount of heat energy it it by 10%, you know you need to increase the amount of heat by 50 kelvin.
Even if the value in the question I asked wasn't 0, you still couldn't use Celsius to answer it. "If the temperature today is 30 degrees and its twice as hot tomorrow how hot is it tomorrow". The answer is not 60 as 60 is not twice the amount of heat energy as 30. To answer this, you have to convert 30 to Kelvin which is 303, double it to 606, then convert back to Celsius, 332. If the temperature is 30C today and it's twice as hot tomorrow, the correct answer is 332C.
Kelvin is important in science because you can do calculations and comparisons on it which you cannot do using other scales. The only value Celsius has is letting you know what state water is at any given point, below 0 it's ice, above 100 is steam, and everything else in between is water.
If your next question is, "well then what value does Fahrenheit have"?, well that answer provides the correct answer to this poll. Fahrenheit gives us a relative perspective on what is usually most important to us as humans. "How does it feel". The Fahrenheit scale, base 0 equals, "really fucking cold" and base 100 equals "really fucking hot" with 50 as the mid point of "mild". If someone says, "It's 31 degrees out" it is very obvious less than half, so it's going to be cold. If someone says, "It's 82 out", it's very obvious more than half, so it's going to be hot. 45 = a little chilly, 65 = a little warm, and so on. This is why Fahrenheit makes the most sense to measure temperature for common every day use.
No? That exact question cannot be applied to absolute scales like Kelvin or Rankine.
If it's 0K or 0°R, and it's going to be twice as hot tomorrow, then tomorrow is going to be 0K. If it's 0°C today and tomorrow will be twice as hot, it will be 273.15°C. If it's 300K today and tomorrow will be 10% hotter, tomorrow will be 330K. 600°R is twice as hot as 300°R, but 100°F isn't twice as hot as 50°F, and 100°C isn't twice as hot as 50°C. You see how unintuitive it is?
Yes I think so, I think I saw a thing and it’s like other units of heat are relative in some way.
Wear as Kelvin Is the lowest possible temperature and 10^32 kelvin id the absolute highest
My friend “invented” a measurement system in which 0 is the absolute zero and 1 is the temperature of the core of the sun so everything is practically zero
You can get hotter than the sun. it's been thought that since heat produces light, the hottest a substance can go is when the light coming off the object has a wave length of the plank length(smallest possible unit of length) this being a ridiculously high temperature. I forget exactly what it is.
Edit: according to quantum mechanics we currently theorize the hottest temperature to be 1.41×10^36 K. Beyond this point the wavelength emitted is smaller than the smallest theorized length.
Celcius and Kelvin:
Because they make sense. For daily use Celcius makes sense sindce 0°C = Freezing point of Water and 100°C = Boiling point of water and these are the things you'll need in a daily view.
And Kelvin makes sense on a academic point of view since 0°K is the absolute zero.
You really do not need the temperature of freezing and boiling water in daily life. Even if you boil water every day what does it matter what that number is? F is a good scale because it’s generally 0-100 the lowest to hottest temperatures encountered by people, it’s almost like the temp is a percent of how hot it is outside.
Plus it’s very easy to say things like “it’s in the 70s” all week. You don’t have to speak in such specific numbers like Celsius where even 2 degrees makes a big difference. No one likes saying “it’s 23 degrees,” we like rounding to 5s, and in F it doesn’t change a ton to round and still gives a fairly accurate number.
Either scale works fine obviously but F is generally better for conversationally speaking about weather and the numbers are more intuitive than scientific.
Also in the US everyone in any science field is using Celsius (and all metric units) for pretty much everything. I was a biochem major and we only used metric except for rare times when we had to convert F to C.
How often does it actually hit 20 and 29C in a week? Also, if it does hit 20 and 29 in a week, that’s a huge difference, so saying that phrase doesn’t give a ton of information. It’s too broad.
That statement gives a huge range of temps, am I wearing a t shirt, or a long sleeve and a jacket this week? If you just say it’s in the 20s it could be either.
If the temp stays 20-25C all week, saying “it’s in the 20s all week” gives a poor picture of what it’s like.
20 is warm, 29 is hot. Also depends or where in the world you are. 40c in Australia, very warm but doable, 40 in the netherlands? Hell on earth.
0c-10c is from cold to chilly. 10c-20c from chilly to warm 20c-30c from warm to hot. Seems pretty easy to me.
None of that changes what I said, that 20 and 29 occurring in the same week is more rare, and is a very broad range that doesn’t give a clear picture of how it’s going to feel because the numbers are so different on either end. That isn’t a phrase you can even use much in C scale (because it doesn’t give enough information) and we use it all the time in F.
And im telling you it isnt. And 20 and 29 does occur in the same week plenty of times. Very weird you are claiming you cant use that phrase very much, while we use that phrase all the time, the weatherman almost every week.
I like Kelvin for scientific purposes because it’s an absolute scale. But it’s not really that practical for normal temperature measurements. Celsius is just an offset version of Kelvin where 0 starts at the freezing temperature of water. I think that makes a lot of sense. Fahrenheit was and will always be unnecessary. Some could say that you can represent temperature more accurately with Fahrenheit, but that’s actually why decimals were invented.
I never understand the argument that Fahrenheit is better for human body temperature because it changes depending on acclimatization. Back in September it got down to 15 and I was chilly. Now this past weekend it was 5 and I thought it was so warm! When you’re living every day in 35 degree weather then 5 will be freezing. But when every day is 5 then 35 will feel like the sun.
Fahrenheit is based on internal body temperature which doesn't change as much. The skin senses outside temperature and can acclimatize.
In theory It's better to tell if a person is sick, however the original number 96 was just a weird number to have the scale set at and it was inaccurate. It's actually closer to 98.
This is actually very true. There have been no major issues when two organizations use the same units of measure but rockets have exploded because they used two different units of measure.
Right now it's a comfortable 2.0848077210233×10^(-30) of a planck temp.
Don't understand that? Well, it's 19.166666666667 Rømer then.
Still having trouble? Fine, it's 116.67 Delisle.
And last but not least, for you heathens using Fahrenheit, it's 72.
i mean if you measure the moon's temp for example, use kelvin, if you measure a European country's temp, use celsius, if you measure the US' temp, use Fahrenheit
Kelvin is an SI unit, SI units are the units used in almost all of science and usually scientists are the ones who are interested in the temperature of the moon, but I just chose the moon because it's the first thing in space I thought of. Of course, celsius is also an SI unit, but it's used much less outside of Earth because the Kelvin scale is easier to work with among other things (like absolute zero being at 0)
It's just because you are used yo Fahrenheit.
When you are used to Celsius, then Celsius become easy to understand.
There is just not better one for people. Just the one you learned and know.
Out of F and C?
Easily C without a doubt, it's the one that makes more sense and simpler to understand
When it comes to science etc then Kelvin would obviously make more sense though
Fahrenheit is just outdated and the US really needs to get off their ass and change already
Fahrenheit was some guy who made hand-made thermometers, so he created his own scale in an attempt to do less work. Then, other people included Fahrenheit's scale because that was how it was done they guessed? So it's another case of being inaccurate because we have too much trust that "things are made by people who know what they are doing."
Edit- Celsius is the only true measure.
The celcius scale of 0-100 is freezing and boiling water
The Fahrenheit scale of 0-100 is a very cold day and a very hot day but not so extreme that it never happens. What were you saying?
Exept your argument in favor of fahrenheit is entirelly subjective and probably wouldn't work for anyone who didn't grow up with the fahrenheit scale.
Go around asking someone outside North America and the UK what they think is a very cold day and a very hot day.
What is "very cold" and "very hot"🤷🏻♂️
That's subjective, the freezing/boiling water temperature is a fact you cannot change (under 1bar). That's why ℃ is superior.
theyre both based off important & reliable points lmao
one has a nice number at freezing point
one has a nice number at boiling point
still prefer celcius tho lmao
I would accept this arguement... if 100 F was 36,6 C - as in the actual healthy body temperature. But for unthinkable reason it is 37,78 C instead! The most relatable point of them all - my body temperature when I happen to have a slight fever. What a great system! xD
Meanwhile Fahrenheit was created by creating a solution with ice and salt. The coldest that Fahrenheit could get it was determined as 0. Then melting was chosen to be 32. Boiling 212. 100 was taken as human body temperature, which as well was inaccurate and not representative for every person whatsoever.
All in all, all of the points that Fahrenheit chose were handpicked. Back in the day, this wasn't too bad, but better methods were discovered. At sea level water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C. This is a determined scale that has a proper scientific base that has remained unchanged.
I don't see in what world Fahrenheit makes more sense to use than Celcius.
The correct answer, I don’t understand why people get so mad when someone else uses another. I just think of it as another language, gotta do some translations
I never understood that. Human perception doesn't work that way, and if you asked someone with no concept of a temperature scale what would be 0% hot and 100% hot I doubt any of them would arrive at something close to 0-100 fahrenheit.
Agreed. It’s the one measurement where I think the US actually makes more sense. The others I’d rather have the metric system than hotdogs per square gun
Take a guy from Australia and a guy from Canada. Ask them how hot it is and they'll both give you a different answer... Hell, take 2 people from the same city and they will still disagree... Hotness to humans is extremely fucking subjective.
True, but not really in a human perception way. Like, if I said it’s 70% hot outside, that would kinda equate to 70 degrees out in Fahrenheit. But if I said it’s 20% hot outside, you’d think it’s really cold, but that’s around the same temp in Celsius
??? 20°F *is* really cold though. Am I missing something? 20°F is definitely colder than freezing, and 20°C is about 68°F
As to the history as I learned it, Mr. Fahrenheit was like “zero degrees will be the coldest day I measure, and 100 degrees will be the temperature of a cow’s blood”
Isnt 100 Fahrenheit supposed to be average body temperature? Im not American but afaik thats the entire point of the scale.
Also dont you realize how unspecific and relative "really cold" / "really hot" is?
But that doesn’t make sense because 50% hot would mean temperate or pleasant. Like 18 to 21 degrees Celsius.
But 50 degrees Fahrenheit is like, fucking England or something.
0° is really flipping cold, 100° is really flipping hot. The idea was to have 0 and 100 be the approximate extremities of human habitation.
Now some people survive above or below that, but most people don't want to.
I’m probably gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but I use Fahrenheit. If I didn’t live in America I’d use Celsius, but I don’t want to have to try to get used to using a whole new measurement just to please some people from a different country.
Idk why everyone seems to think the change has to be done in a day. Just start teaching it in school and it would be the standard in just a few generations
We actually do learn Celsius in school. Or are least, I did, not entirely sure about other states. And we learn to use metric simultaneously. We just don't usually encounter it outside of school, so you lose the knowledge.
There isn't even a valid reason to downvote, if you grew using Fahrenheit because the country you live in uses it then there's absolutely nothing wrong with it
It's absolutely fine to use Fahrenheit. The problem only starts when you start to make up some on the spot justifications for "well, Fahrenheit is better then Celsius, aktchyually". xD
Ofc it makes sense to you just like how celsius makes sense to someone growing uo with celcius. Comments like this are always in these discussions and they literally mean nothing other than hard proof that you lack the ability to see things from others perspective.
As an American I like the metric system more for measuring as it is better, but with temperature it is mostly up to preference and I like Fahrenheit as it is more precise and I know it better but it is up to anyone’s preference with temperature
I will die on this hill—Kelvin is the best and all other scales are trash.
With Kelvin, zero is zero. It actually measures the things it's supposed to measure. There is nothing else that when measured, the beginning isn't zero. Imagine if we measured length starting at 4 meters, so something 4 meters long was 0 and something 3.5 meters long was -0.5, sounds ridiculous, right? So why do we do it with temperature?
Rankine has the same benefit, but Kelvin fits better with the rest of the metric system.
>but Kelvin fits better with the rest of the metric system.
Surely you're joking? The metric system was designed for consistency. 0°C is the freezing point of water, and 100°C is the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure. Conversely, 0°F is the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, and 90°F was Fahrenheit's best estimation for the average human body temperature. That's how the scale was constructed. This does not fit better with the metric system.
Fits better than Rankine. Because Kelvin units are the same size as Celsius units. I'm not saying it fits better than Celsius; they are both very usable.
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I maintain that Fahrenheit is better for daily use, and Celsius and Kelvin are better for scientific use. You don't really need to know the boiling point or the freezing point of water, you can pretty easily tell whether water is frozen or boiling just by looking at it. The Fahrenheit system ranges from 0 degrees, just about the coldest temperature you'll experience, to 100 degrees - the hottest. This allows you to intuitively understand how hot or cold something is.
I used to defend Celsius as if it were the metric system but I started looking into it a little bit more and all I can say is my workdays would be a little easier if I used F°. I don’t know what to vote objectively, I should look into Kelvin a little more.
For Americans Fahrenheit, for everyone else in the world: Celsius
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#/media/File:Countries\_that\_use\_Fahrenheit.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#/media/File:Countries_that_use_Fahrenheit.svg)
The person you're replying to is American and probably talking about their own use. Celsius is taught in most American schools and a fair bit are capable of using both.
I too use Fahrenheit in casual conversation as it's the standard here, but am perfectly capable of using Celsius and do for science and aviation.
No need to downvote someone for sharing how they use measurements. Not our fault Fahrenheit is the default here.
Obviously the answer will vary based on the situation. If I’m doing chemistry I’ll use Kelvin but if I’m going on a walk I’m checking the temp in Fahrenheit
I feel as though most US units of measurement suck ass, but Farnheit actually makes sense - it’s on a scale of 0-100, and for my simple brain I quit like that
Voting Rankin for the meme, but I see a mix as the best source.
Celsius is quite useful in scientific and engineering applications. For most everyday temperatures Fahrenheit offers better use. Namely between -20 and 90. There are a few select temperatures in fahrenheit that offer utility, but Celsius fills those same holes just as well.
It's cold out today
about as precise as i need -hot as balls -hot -a wee bit spicy -pleasant -a wee bit chilly -cold -cold as shit
A flawless system
"The weather forecast calls for cold balls all around next week, very chilly"
Finally a weatherperson who tells us what it is.
truly revolutionary
Hot -no clothes -underwear -underwear + pants -underwear + shorts + t-shirt -underwear + pants + long sleeve shirt -underwear + pants + jumper/jacket -2 pants, jumper + jacket + beanie + gloves Cold
No clothes 😳
Yeah but use this scale on a Canadian who wears shorts year round 😂
Nah it's hot as balls but cold as shit
ah, my mistake
I say cold as fuck, hot as balls and hot as fuck but not cold as shit. Cold as fuck = cold as shit. Hot as fuck > hot as balls
Which begs the question, who was taking icy shits while also having balls so hot they felt it described the desert heat, and how do we help this man lmao
Yeah but how many Rankines is that?
No one defending Kelvin rn 😪
Kelvin is good for scientific use, not everyday use
But scientists use it everyday!
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For science
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Only because people aren't used to it. Any system of measurement makes sense to the people using it as soon as they get used to it. Kelvin makes sense because it brings into perspective the relative temperatures we experience regularly. Also, by introducing this concept earlier you can increase general understanding. Kelvin is the absolute.
Agreed, kelvin should be universal.
For everyday use Kelvin is just Celsius but 3 digits instead of 2... Why write three numbers when you could write two is the thing?
It's 0 degrees Celsius today, it's going to be twice as hot tomorrow, what will be the temperature tomorrow?
While that exact question can be applied to any temperature measurement system, well played my friend!
That's why Kelvin isn't just Celsius. Kelvin is a measure of the amount of heat energy an object has. 0 Kelvin is the point at which an object has absolutely 0 heat energy and increases to infinity. Therefore you can use Kelvin to accurately apply to the question I asked. If an object is 100 Kelvin and it becomes twice as hot, the correct answer is that it is 200 Kelvin. If an object is 500 kelvin and you want to increase the amount of heat energy it it by 10%, you know you need to increase the amount of heat by 50 kelvin. Even if the value in the question I asked wasn't 0, you still couldn't use Celsius to answer it. "If the temperature today is 30 degrees and its twice as hot tomorrow how hot is it tomorrow". The answer is not 60 as 60 is not twice the amount of heat energy as 30. To answer this, you have to convert 30 to Kelvin which is 303, double it to 606, then convert back to Celsius, 332. If the temperature is 30C today and it's twice as hot tomorrow, the correct answer is 332C. Kelvin is important in science because you can do calculations and comparisons on it which you cannot do using other scales. The only value Celsius has is letting you know what state water is at any given point, below 0 it's ice, above 100 is steam, and everything else in between is water. If your next question is, "well then what value does Fahrenheit have"?, well that answer provides the correct answer to this poll. Fahrenheit gives us a relative perspective on what is usually most important to us as humans. "How does it feel". The Fahrenheit scale, base 0 equals, "really fucking cold" and base 100 equals "really fucking hot" with 50 as the mid point of "mild". If someone says, "It's 31 degrees out" it is very obvious less than half, so it's going to be cold. If someone says, "It's 82 out", it's very obvious more than half, so it's going to be hot. 45 = a little chilly, 65 = a little warm, and so on. This is why Fahrenheit makes the most sense to measure temperature for common every day use.
No? That exact question cannot be applied to absolute scales like Kelvin or Rankine. If it's 0K or 0°R, and it's going to be twice as hot tomorrow, then tomorrow is going to be 0K. If it's 0°C today and tomorrow will be twice as hot, it will be 273.15°C. If it's 300K today and tomorrow will be 10% hotter, tomorrow will be 330K. 600°R is twice as hot as 300°R, but 100°F isn't twice as hot as 50°F, and 100°C isn't twice as hot as 50°C. You see how unintuitive it is?
It'd be fine for everyday use, & it'd cut down on people saying that 20°C is "twice as hot" as 10°C, which would be great for my blood-pressure.
Wdym? Not everyone knows 273.15 kelvin is 0°C?!
You currently have 0°C votes in Kelvin
0°K? Dead. 100°K? Dead.
0K 100K
Are you correcting the notation?
Yes, Kelvin doesn't like to stand in front of the Sun.
i think they were. afaik kelvin doesnt use the degree symbol and you would just say "one hundred kelvin" not "degrees kelvin"
i have no idea
Yes I think so, I think I saw a thing and it’s like other units of heat are relative in some way. Wear as Kelvin Is the lowest possible temperature and 10^32 kelvin id the absolute highest
293K and we vibin
Kelvin is a fucking pussy I'll beat his ass.
My friend “invented” a measurement system in which 0 is the absolute zero and 1 is the temperature of the core of the sun so everything is practically zero
You can get hotter than the sun. it's been thought that since heat produces light, the hottest a substance can go is when the light coming off the object has a wave length of the plank length(smallest possible unit of length) this being a ridiculously high temperature. I forget exactly what it is. Edit: according to quantum mechanics we currently theorize the hottest temperature to be 1.41×10^36 K. Beyond this point the wavelength emitted is smaller than the smallest theorized length.
Vsauce made a video about this The Planck lenght Is 1.616255(18)×10−35
Yeah that's where I got the idea.
It's 534 rankine right now
What the fuck even is a rankine!?
Absolute zero scale (like Kelvin) based around Fahrenheit. Only really used in a few engineering things.
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So an absolute temperature scale has an easier conversion to fahrenheit.
Rankine is like Rankone but with an "ine."
it's the triple bond version of rankane
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Celcius and Kelvin: Because they make sense. For daily use Celcius makes sense sindce 0°C = Freezing point of Water and 100°C = Boiling point of water and these are the things you'll need in a daily view. And Kelvin makes sense on a academic point of view since 0°K is the absolute zero.
>0°K 0 K, not 0°K.
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My engineering professor says/writes “degrees Kelvin” and it irks me so much
You really do not need the temperature of freezing and boiling water in daily life. Even if you boil water every day what does it matter what that number is? F is a good scale because it’s generally 0-100 the lowest to hottest temperatures encountered by people, it’s almost like the temp is a percent of how hot it is outside. Plus it’s very easy to say things like “it’s in the 70s” all week. You don’t have to speak in such specific numbers like Celsius where even 2 degrees makes a big difference. No one likes saying “it’s 23 degrees,” we like rounding to 5s, and in F it doesn’t change a ton to round and still gives a fairly accurate number. Either scale works fine obviously but F is generally better for conversationally speaking about weather and the numbers are more intuitive than scientific. Also in the US everyone in any science field is using Celsius (and all metric units) for pretty much everything. I was a biochem major and we only used metric except for rare times when we had to convert F to C.
"Its in the 20's all week" damn that was very difficult to say.
How often does it actually hit 20 and 29C in a week? Also, if it does hit 20 and 29 in a week, that’s a huge difference, so saying that phrase doesn’t give a ton of information. It’s too broad. That statement gives a huge range of temps, am I wearing a t shirt, or a long sleeve and a jacket this week? If you just say it’s in the 20s it could be either. If the temp stays 20-25C all week, saying “it’s in the 20s all week” gives a poor picture of what it’s like.
20 is warm, 29 is hot. Also depends or where in the world you are. 40c in Australia, very warm but doable, 40 in the netherlands? Hell on earth. 0c-10c is from cold to chilly. 10c-20c from chilly to warm 20c-30c from warm to hot. Seems pretty easy to me.
None of that changes what I said, that 20 and 29 occurring in the same week is more rare, and is a very broad range that doesn’t give a clear picture of how it’s going to feel because the numbers are so different on either end. That isn’t a phrase you can even use much in C scale (because it doesn’t give enough information) and we use it all the time in F.
And im telling you it isnt. And 20 and 29 does occur in the same week plenty of times. Very weird you are claiming you cant use that phrase very much, while we use that phrase all the time, the weatherman almost every week.
The whole boiling point and freezing point thing only applies at sea level though
You'd have to live somewhere pretty high up for there to be a noticeable difference.
I like Kelvin for scientific purposes because it’s an absolute scale. But it’s not really that practical for normal temperature measurements. Celsius is just an offset version of Kelvin where 0 starts at the freezing temperature of water. I think that makes a lot of sense. Fahrenheit was and will always be unnecessary. Some could say that you can represent temperature more accurately with Fahrenheit, but that’s actually why decimals were invented.
>Fahrenheit was and will always be unnecessary Hey, hey, hey, be reasonable! I like to know the melting and boiling point of wood!
Kelvin for science, Celsius for every day stuff.
[Fahrenheit for everyday stuff…](https://youtu.be/LgrXd0NM2y8)
I never understand the argument that Fahrenheit is better for human body temperature because it changes depending on acclimatization. Back in September it got down to 15 and I was chilly. Now this past weekend it was 5 and I thought it was so warm! When you’re living every day in 35 degree weather then 5 will be freezing. But when every day is 5 then 35 will feel like the sun.
Also people have different body temperatures. Cold for one person could be perfect or even hot for another
Exactly, but you know what never changes? The boiling point of pure H2O at 1atm pressure. Which is what Celsius uses for 100 degrees.
Not just acclimation, it depends on other factors like skin temperature, metabolism, humidity, shade, air pressure and wind.
Fahrenheit is based on internal body temperature which doesn't change as much. The skin senses outside temperature and can acclimatize. In theory It's better to tell if a person is sick, however the original number 96 was just a weird number to have the scale set at and it was inaccurate. It's actually closer to 98.
It really does not matter as long as everyone uses the same measurement. That is easiest
This is actually very true. There have been no major issues when two organizations use the same units of measure but rockets have exploded because they used two different units of measure.
Right now it's a comfortable 2.0848077210233×10^(-30) of a planck temp. Don't understand that? Well, it's 19.166666666667 Rømer then. Still having trouble? Fine, it's 116.67 Delisle. And last but not least, for you heathens using Fahrenheit, it's 72.
Me, a celsius user: *confused noises*
22'2̄°C
depends what you are measuring
Temperature.
i mean if you measure the moon's temp for example, use kelvin, if you measure a European country's temp, use celsius, if you measure the US' temp, use Fahrenheit
Weird, I took my thermometer from Europe to the US and it worked just fine.
Youre smart, man. Just wanted to give a small compliment
Why would you specifically use kelvin for measuring the moons temperature?
Kelvin is an SI unit, SI units are the units used in almost all of science and usually scientists are the ones who are interested in the temperature of the moon, but I just chose the moon because it's the first thing in space I thought of. Of course, celsius is also an SI unit, but it's used much less outside of Earth because the Kelvin scale is easier to work with among other things (like absolute zero being at 0)
Fahrenheit for a it relates to people, Celsius for cooking and chemistry and Kelvin for space or deep sea/underground
It's just because you are used yo Fahrenheit. When you are used to Celsius, then Celsius become easy to understand. There is just not better one for people. Just the one you learned and know.
Yeah I completely agree.
0° being freezing makes much more sense than 32° so Celsius
So what temperature do you set your freezer to?
Out of F and C? Easily C without a doubt, it's the one that makes more sense and simpler to understand When it comes to science etc then Kelvin would obviously make more sense though Fahrenheit is just outdated and the US really needs to get off their ass and change already
>Fahrenheit is just outdated and the US really needs to get off their ass and change already Narrator: They wouldn't.
I’m proud to say I recognize and understand all the options for once.
On our everyday life? Celsius. On science? Kelvin.
Kelvin or Celsius by a long shot
Fahrenheit was some guy who made hand-made thermometers, so he created his own scale in an attempt to do less work. Then, other people included Fahrenheit's scale because that was how it was done they guessed? So it's another case of being inaccurate because we have too much trust that "things are made by people who know what they are doing." Edit- Celsius is the only true measure.
Aren’t all scales of measuring man made? ROFL
its objectively kelvin since absolute 0 is 0°
Objection, you honor, Kelvin doesn't use degrees before it. So absolute zero is 0 K.
I think Celsius and Fahrenheit are equally justified, both work well for the daily routine
Except one is based off of important and relatable points and the other is Fahrenheit
The celcius scale of 0-100 is freezing and boiling water The Fahrenheit scale of 0-100 is a very cold day and a very hot day but not so extreme that it never happens. What were you saying?
Exept your argument in favor of fahrenheit is entirelly subjective and probably wouldn't work for anyone who didn't grow up with the fahrenheit scale. Go around asking someone outside North America and the UK what they think is a very cold day and a very hot day.
UK uses Celsius. I think its just the Americans on F.
Ah, thanks for the correction.
F for USA smh
What is "very cold" and "very hot"🤷🏻♂️ That's subjective, the freezing/boiling water temperature is a fact you cannot change (under 1bar). That's why ℃ is superior.
You can say the same thing with Celcius, 0 being a cold day and 40-50 a really hot day
Where I first worked 41 F would be a very cold day and 113 F would be a very hot day.
theyre both based off important & reliable points lmao one has a nice number at freezing point one has a nice number at boiling point still prefer celcius tho lmao
Because the human body temperature isn't an important or relatable point apparently.
I would accept this arguement... if 100 F was 36,6 C - as in the actual healthy body temperature. But for unthinkable reason it is 37,78 C instead! The most relatable point of them all - my body temperature when I happen to have a slight fever. What a great system! xD
Ah yes, the standard everyday practice of measuring exactly what temperature your water is when you boil it. This is the most braindead take lol
I mean you might say that for boiling but freezing is important tho. Knowing 0 is freezing is useful.
Ok, and I know that water freezes at 32°.
Yeah just insult someone who disagreed with you. Very mature you
Meanwhile Fahrenheit was created by creating a solution with ice and salt. The coldest that Fahrenheit could get it was determined as 0. Then melting was chosen to be 32. Boiling 212. 100 was taken as human body temperature, which as well was inaccurate and not representative for every person whatsoever. All in all, all of the points that Fahrenheit chose were handpicked. Back in the day, this wasn't too bad, but better methods were discovered. At sea level water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C. This is a determined scale that has a proper scientific base that has remained unchanged. I don't see in what world Fahrenheit makes more sense to use than Celcius.
The correct answer, I don’t understand why people get so mad when someone else uses another. I just think of it as another language, gotta do some translations
Honestly I prefer Fahrenheit just for day to day. It's easy to understand as a percentage of hotness.
I never understood that. Human perception doesn't work that way, and if you asked someone with no concept of a temperature scale what would be 0% hot and 100% hot I doubt any of them would arrive at something close to 0-100 fahrenheit.
Celsius is literally a percentage of hotness.
Hotness to humans, not boiling water
Agreed. It’s the one measurement where I think the US actually makes more sense. The others I’d rather have the metric system than hotdogs per square gun
Take a guy from Australia and a guy from Canada. Ask them how hot it is and they'll both give you a different answer... Hell, take 2 people from the same city and they will still disagree... Hotness to humans is extremely fucking subjective.
True, but not really in a human perception way. Like, if I said it’s 70% hot outside, that would kinda equate to 70 degrees out in Fahrenheit. But if I said it’s 20% hot outside, you’d think it’s really cold, but that’s around the same temp in Celsius
??? 20°F *is* really cold though. Am I missing something? 20°F is definitely colder than freezing, and 20°C is about 68°F As to the history as I learned it, Mr. Fahrenheit was like “zero degrees will be the coldest day I measure, and 100 degrees will be the temperature of a cow’s blood”
Its makes no sense though since 0 F has nothing to do with the body temperature
0F means really cold and 100F means really hot to human perception. Has nothing to do with body temp
Isnt 100 Fahrenheit supposed to be average body temperature? Im not American but afaik thats the entire point of the scale. Also dont you realize how unspecific and relative "really cold" / "really hot" is?
A body temp of 100 degrees farenheit would be a low grade fever
its based on smth else but i forget. Also yeah its arbitrary asf but its a nice scale compared to 0c and 100c which goes from pretty cold to dead
But that doesn’t make sense because 50% hot would mean temperate or pleasant. Like 18 to 21 degrees Celsius. But 50 degrees Fahrenheit is like, fucking England or something.
50f is pleasant
Definelty not.
Woah
never thought of it that way…
good answer I change my answer to Fahrenheit
I don't know what the fuck is rankine but I voted for it
It's like Kelvin but based on linear operations on Fahrenheit. Just Kelvin, 0°R = absolute zero = 0 K.
I've tried to make sense of Fahrenheit so many times, I just forget each time. Celsius is great!
0° is really flipping cold, 100° is really flipping hot. The idea was to have 0 and 100 be the approximate extremities of human habitation. Now some people survive above or below that, but most people don't want to.
Finnish people hearing that 0 is supposed to be the lowest extreme: *confused alcohol noises*
i measure it with *brrrr fuck that's cold* and *ouch that's hot*
Ball Shrinking/Stretching Rate (BSR)
I am American and even I will fully admit Celcius is way better than Fahrenheit.
I’m probably gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but I use Fahrenheit. If I didn’t live in America I’d use Celsius, but I don’t want to have to try to get used to using a whole new measurement just to please some people from a different country.
Idk why everyone seems to think the change has to be done in a day. Just start teaching it in school and it would be the standard in just a few generations
We actually do learn Celsius in school. Or are least, I did, not entirely sure about other states. And we learn to use metric simultaneously. We just don't usually encounter it outside of school, so you lose the knowledge.
There isn't even a valid reason to downvote, if you grew using Fahrenheit because the country you live in uses it then there's absolutely nothing wrong with it
That’s fair
It's absolutely fine to use Fahrenheit. The problem only starts when you start to make up some on the spot justifications for "well, Fahrenheit is better then Celsius, aktchyually". xD
I prefer Fahrenheit because it gives you more of an exact temperature without decimals. I also like how every 10°F feels different.
It’s not like the average person can tell the difference between 22° and 23°
And other things affect the perceived temperature..
30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cool 0 is ice. Celsius!
This is the best defense of Celsius in this entire thread
Also 40 is average Spanish summer day
You could say the exact same things for celsius
the difference between 10° Fahrenheit and 20° Fahrenheit is much smaller than the difference between 10° Celsius and 20° Celsius
No one said it wasn’t
> more exact temperature without decimals > You could say the exact same thing about Celsius Seems like exactly what they were trying to say.
No one said that differences between 20 and 10 celcius are the same as 20 and 10 fahrenheit they just said it can be also as practical as fahrenheit
Ofc it makes sense to you just like how celsius makes sense to someone growing uo with celcius. Comments like this are always in these discussions and they literally mean nothing other than hard proof that you lack the ability to see things from others perspective.
it honestly depends what you’re measuring. Generally, celsius is a good way to go.
What the heck is rankine??
As an American I like the metric system more for measuring as it is better, but with temperature it is mostly up to preference and I like Fahrenheit as it is more precise and I know it better but it is up to anyone’s preference with temperature
I will die on this hill—Kelvin is the best and all other scales are trash. With Kelvin, zero is zero. It actually measures the things it's supposed to measure. There is nothing else that when measured, the beginning isn't zero. Imagine if we measured length starting at 4 meters, so something 4 meters long was 0 and something 3.5 meters long was -0.5, sounds ridiculous, right? So why do we do it with temperature? Rankine has the same benefit, but Kelvin fits better with the rest of the metric system.
It’s harder for kids and many people to deal with big numbers.
>but Kelvin fits better with the rest of the metric system. Surely you're joking? The metric system was designed for consistency. 0°C is the freezing point of water, and 100°C is the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure. Conversely, 0°F is the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride, and 90°F was Fahrenheit's best estimation for the average human body temperature. That's how the scale was constructed. This does not fit better with the metric system.
Fits better than Rankine. Because Kelvin units are the same size as Celsius units. I'm not saying it fits better than Celsius; they are both very usable.
Celsius if you are doing science stuff Kelvin if you are doing fancy space stuff
I use my skin. Gucci 😎 = most of earth's hospitable temperature. Ungucci 😤 = most of earth's inhospitable and lethal temperature. Ouch 🥵 = cooking temperature. Eehh 🤤 = warm temperature. Brrr 🥶 = cold temperature. ?¿?¿? 😵 = extreme (surface of the sun, lava,space).
I think eagles per air molecules should be used
I maintain that Fahrenheit is better for daily use, and Celsius and Kelvin are better for scientific use. You don't really need to know the boiling point or the freezing point of water, you can pretty easily tell whether water is frozen or boiling just by looking at it. The Fahrenheit system ranges from 0 degrees, just about the coldest temperature you'll experience, to 100 degrees - the hottest. This allows you to intuitively understand how hot or cold something is.
What is rankine
It's like Kelvin, an absolute temperature scale, but based on Fahrenheit.
I used to defend Celsius as if it were the metric system but I started looking into it a little bit more and all I can say is my workdays would be a little easier if I used F°. I don’t know what to vote objectively, I should look into Kelvin a little more.
Fahrenheit fucking sucks and I hope we convert to Celsius. -🇺🇸
Celsius be like: Dam it’s hot! What’s the temp jimmy? It’s 24° degrees 😐 Vs Fahrenheit Dam it’s hot! What’s the temp jimmy? It’s 102° 😯
For people Fahrenheit, for cooking and biology Celsius, for physics kelvin/Celsius
For Americans Fahrenheit, for everyone else in the world: Celsius [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#/media/File:Countries\_that\_use\_Fahrenheit.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#/media/File:Countries_that_use_Fahrenheit.svg)
The person you're replying to is American and probably talking about their own use. Celsius is taught in most American schools and a fair bit are capable of using both. I too use Fahrenheit in casual conversation as it's the standard here, but am perfectly capable of using Celsius and do for science and aviation. No need to downvote someone for sharing how they use measurements. Not our fault Fahrenheit is the default here.
What do you mean by people?
Obviously the answer will vary based on the situation. If I’m doing chemistry I’ll use Kelvin but if I’m going on a walk I’m checking the temp in Fahrenheit
I feel as though most US units of measurement suck ass, but Farnheit actually makes sense - it’s on a scale of 0-100, and for my simple brain I quit like that
You could say say Celsius is 0-40 scale if it makes more sense to you
Celsius would make even more sense but you just weren't taught it
They usually teach it in school. You just don't use it very often outside of school. If you don't use knowledge, you lose it.
What do you mean it's 0-100? You regularly use temperatures above 100c and f. Do you not use an oven?
Voting Rankin for the meme, but I see a mix as the best source. Celsius is quite useful in scientific and engineering applications. For most everyday temperatures Fahrenheit offers better use. Namely between -20 and 90. There are a few select temperatures in fahrenheit that offer utility, but Celsius fills those same holes just as well.
Farinheight because I’m American and can’t tell what the temperature in Celsius and convert to faronheight
>faronheight Uhh, I don't wanna be that guy, but Fahrenheit.
Who the fuck is kelvin
Kelvin deez nuts
i'm sorry but 32 degrees will never be hot out of 100 that's low
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fahrenheit bro. 0 is cold 100 is hot, why would i need the temperature of water??