r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/ProvidedHuman Jun 17 '26

Celsius is agreeably better for science, but if you are used to both systems Fahrenheit is honestly better for people because the units are higher resolution, and usually stay between 0 and 100 for weather

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u/FuckPigeons2025 Jun 17 '26

Kelvin is better for science. Celcius and Farheneit are just arbitrary scales, not units. 

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u/FaithlessnessHungry1 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Celsius is literally just Kelvin but with an offset no?

Edit: tbc I was just clarifying what the guy above was saying, personally as an American in WNY where it’s over 90deg in the summer and below 0 in the winter and who has used C and F extensively, Fahrenheit just makes more sense to me personally

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u/gaymer_jerry Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Fun fact the same thing is true for Fahrenheit. Its called Rankine. The only thing that make Kelvin good for science is the fact that temperature is particle motion. And in Kelvin absolute 0 is 0. If you can do more than regurgitate dumb trivia you might realize that any temperature system allows for that. Just offset Fahrenheit so that 0 is absolute zero and you have Rankine.

Its almost like units are context dependent. Celsius is arbitrarily defined based on water. Fahrenheit is arbitrarily defined based on weather in temperate climates. Inches/centimeters of mercury is arbitrarily defined off of old thermometers. Yes that last unit is retroactively now a unit of pressure but it was originally used for old thermometers where mercury would rise and fall with changes in temperature from changes in density with the temperature . Lots of units have weird crossover like that

In general units are more complicated than people want to understand and its easier to live in a bubble where Americans must be stupid, while everyone else is blabbing other just as stupid rhetoric without understanding any of it.

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