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[-] getaway@lemmynsfw.com 48 points 6 months ago

If fahrenheit was how people felt, then room temperature would be 0 because that's the ideal temperature. Negative fahrenheit would be too cold, positive to warm.

[-] ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

That isn't consistent with K and C though. -K doesn't exist. And water doesn't become more frozen at -C (well I guess it technically becomes different kinds of frozen).

Zero in that sense represents the absolute limit that one could exist in a particular state, which for F would be comfort? I guess the issue with humans is that 0 would be very subjective. But I think for almost all humans, the limit would be closer to 40F than 0F.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 points 6 months ago

-K doesn't exist.

It does though, but negative Kelvin is actually hotter than any positive Kelvin.

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