• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    28
    ·
    2 months ago

    It’s still assuming a scale. It’s actually worse because the scale is implied by context.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      2 months ago

      What? What context? The scale is the same as Celsius which is derived from the properties of water. And 0K is when there is absolutely no heat energy in the thing being measured. There is no context where this is not the case.

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        25
        ·
        2 months ago

        The one where a human is speaking in English and referring to a season and the temperature is more than significant context. I hope this helped you; it seems that you’re one of those people who lack the capacity to infer from available data.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          People don’t use Kelvin when referring to seasons. Sure, there’s plenty of ambiguity if someone says it’s 32° out without specifying the units, and you can infer from context, but that has nothing to do with Kelvin starting at absolute zero. Saying “degrees” immediately rules out Kelvin as a unit.

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      Zero kelvin is very contextually useful. Put very simply it literally relates to the motion of atoms. At zero, they move zero.

    • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      2 months ago

      The scale doesn’t matter, double is always double. No matter if expressed in 1m is half of 2m, or 3ft is half of 6ft. Same is true for temperature, als long as the zero point is fixed.