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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What makes Kelvin absolute, and why is Celsius "wobbly"?

I failed physics in high school

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

0 K is like when there is 0 heat basically, while celsius isn't. Imagine a unit for distance called "goob" where 0 goobs is 100 m and 1 goob is 115 m. In that case the goob unit would behave differently than a meter when you multiply and divide because 0 of the units don't actually correspond to "nothing" in a physical sense. That's exactly how the Celsius scale is, with zero being placed somewhere arbitrarily, not at a physical zero.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i feel like i need more goob in my life. do you sell rulers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bit of an awkward scale for a ruler, but I can sell you one from -6.6666666.... to -6.65 goobs.