• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I just don’t understand the utility over C. It sorta feeling like cold or hot doesn’t make all that much sense to me, it’s so vague

    Exactly. Both C and F are arbitrary, both having some advantage over the other for certain circumstances. Kelvin is the only one you can argue for in a purely absolute sense. People saying C is better for some kind of purity reason are just making things up. C and F have the same basis in the measurement of reality, and they’re just slightly better at measuring certain things than the other, but both are perfectly usable interchangeably.

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      2 days ago

      Like I said earlier, the utility of the C’s zero point being when it freezes/snows seems a lot more concrete to me than “it goes from cold to hot, kinda”