Let's go.........RANDOM!

[Rkiver]

It's tempting to say the least. At least I have the manager of the mortgage place shouting at the insurance company too. Always nice to have them on your side.

[Xocrates]

If I'm bragging that it's 35 at night, it's Celsius.

35ºC at night is a good thing?

[dunetrooper]

It's tempting to say the least. At least I have the manager of the mortgage place shouting at the insurance company too. Always nice to have them on your side.

Oh trust me I know. I started building a house in June. I just closed the loan yesterday. The guy that's doing our house was sitting on his thumb and the bank had none of the information they needed, found that out two months into it, all they had was my credit report.

But we kicked his ass into gear when we got my mother in-law into the picture who works for a law firm who made the point we could have sued for a free house or him paying the down payment at the least. always nice

[vanarbulax]

I understand not your bizarre unit of temperature when the freezing point of water isn't 0 and the boiling point isn't 100.

Then again this is the same country which refuses to institute a base ten system of measurement and are forced to multiply/divide by 12/16/whatever for the simplest conversion while the rest of the world laughs and moves the decimal place.

[bert_the_turtle]

Oh, come on, it's not like there were space probes lost because of dodgy unit conversions, let them have their quirky ways

[Pox]

Kelvin makes more sense than Celcius, but it's still based on the arbitrary values to do with state changes... as far as I'm concerned, 1 degree should be the tmeperature gained by a milliltre of water when it is heated with 1 J, rather than bringing calories into the situation as well.

I understand not your bizarre unit of temperature when the freezing point of water isn't 0 and the boiling point isn't 100.

Then again this is the same country which refuses to institute a base ten system of measurement and are forced to multiply/divide by 12/16/whatever for the simplest conversion while the rest of the world laughs and moves the decimal place.

Wut you talking about? Or are you transposing yourself into Englandland?

[Pox]

Exactly. We already have an SI unit for energy, the joule. The unit for heat should correspond without needing a magic number.

[vanarbulax]

Wut you talking about? Or are you transposing yourself into Englandland?

No I was just saying that Fahrenheit isn't surprising in a country which still uses a measurement system mostly based on imperial measurements, at least England is making somewhat of an attempt at becoming metric.

[bert_the_turtle]

You also shouldn't include some arbitrary substance into the definition. Most sensible way is to give the temparature as the average energy of a one dimensional harmonic oscillator (that corresponds to just setting kB = 1), which is what plasma physicists do. There's a practical reason they're the only ones: everyday temperatures are in the meV range then.

[enola gay]

water freezes at 32ºF and boils at 212ºF - which leaves 180º between - the same difference between north and south - entirely logical

[bert_the_turtle]

meV or MeV?

meV. What I said For plasma physicist, it gets well into the eV range.

[Mas Tnega]

water freezes at 32ºF and boils at 212ºF - which leaves 180º between - the same difference between north and south - entirely logical

But how does that measure up to anything meaningful? Does ice does turn and become steam?

[xander]

water freezes at 32ºF and boils at 212ºF - which leaves 180º between - the same difference between north and south - entirely logical :?

I don't remember what the rationale for 0ºF was (thought I think it was the freezing point of some element), but 100°F was supposed to be the average body temperature of a human. Fahrenheit didn't have the most accurate instruments in the world, and human body temperature varries a bit anyway, so 100°F isn't actually body temperature, but it was supposed to be. As to why that particular thing, Fahrenheit was, as I recall, a doctor, and needed a scale that would be practical for doctors.

xander

[Feud]

If I'm bragging that it's 35 at night, it's Celsius.

35ºC at night is a good thing?

Yes, it is a very good thing. There are few things more wonderful than a hot breeze on a dark summer night...

[Pox]

Yeah, 30-40C + 80+% humidity = no sleep.
Yay for AC.