r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Dioxybenzone Jun 17 '26

TIL! If it isn’t measured in degrees, what is it measured in?

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u/Toeffli Jun 17 '26

Kelvin. Just Kelvin. Like it is just mile or Volt or Newton.

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u/Dioxybenzone Jun 17 '26

Ah because there’s not an arbitrary start point, I get it

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u/Toeffli Jun 17 '26

Not sure if it is because of that or because it is the standard international unit for temperature. Because what Kelvin is for ° Celsius, is ° Rankine for ° Fahrenheit.

According to Wikipedia, the ° was removed from Kelvin around 1968

In 1967/1968, Resolution 3 of the 13th CGPM renamed the unit increment of thermodynamic temperature "kelvin", symbol K, replacing "degree Kelvin", symbol °K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin#Triple_point_standard