• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Celsius can be used in place of all three, the others cannot.

    The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale.

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      9 months ago

      The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale

      I disagree. Realistically the scale shouldn’t be able to be negative at all. It doesn’t really make any sense for something have a negative temperature.

      Imagine if other scales worked that way. An object can’t be negative centimeters long. Light can’t be negative lumens. You can’t score negative % on a test. If you are measuring something you can’t have less than nothing.

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        9 months ago

        It’s not nothing, it’s just below the freezing point of water. Zero energy is zero Kelvin. This is also a bad take because Fahrenheit also goes negative. I suppose you should just start using Kelvin if that is your opinion.