F is range of comfortable heat for humans. 0 oppressively cold, 100 is oppressively hot. Nearly all humans can agree on that.
C is range of comfortable heat for liquid water at 1ATM.
K is range of comfortable heat for an atom. Except atoms can handle lots of heat.
Wait is there a universal maximum temperature? There must be, right? Like, it has to be impossible for atoms and subatomic particles to move faster than the speed of light, right?
I always have to comment when I read s.th. like this. And I read it a lot when it comes to temperature scales. Celsius is completely fine scale for humans, most of the world uses it without any complaints. A human cannot tell 22° and 23° C apart. Even americans using Fahrenheit say something like “temperature is in the fifties”.
Fahrenheit (like lots of other scales in the US) has no real place in this world anymore except in this special american view…
The scales have their places.
F is range of comfortable heat for humans. 0 oppressively cold, 100 is oppressively hot. Nearly all humans can agree on that.
C is range of comfortable heat for liquid water at 1ATM.
K is range of comfortable heat for an atom. Except atoms can handle lots of heat.
Wait is there a universal maximum temperature? There must be, right? Like, it has to be impossible for atoms and subatomic particles to move faster than the speed of light, right?
I always have to comment when I read s.th. like this. And I read it a lot when it comes to temperature scales. Celsius is completely fine scale for humans, most of the world uses it without any complaints. A human cannot tell 22° and 23° C apart. Even americans using Fahrenheit say something like “temperature is in the fifties”. Fahrenheit (like lots of other scales in the US) has no real place in this world anymore except in this special american view…
Apparently there is, called the Planck temperature
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/hot.html#:~:text=It’s called the Planck temperature,degrees%2C or 1032 Kelvin.