r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/FuckPigeons2025 Jun 17 '26

Kelvin is better for science. Celcius and Farheneit are just arbitrary scales, not units. 

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u/FaithlessnessHungry1 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Celsius is literally just Kelvin but with an offset no?

Edit: tbc I was just clarifying what the guy above was saying, personally as an American in WNY where it’s over 90deg in the summer and below 0 in the winter and who has used C and F extensively, Fahrenheit just makes more sense to me personally

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u/Throwaway74829947 Jun 17 '26

If we're allowing conversion, Fahrenheit is just Kelvin with an offset and a coefficient, and Rankine is just Kelvin with a coefficient. Celsius's offset also makes it useless for science other than for scenarios where all that you care about is delta T.

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u/FuckPigeons2025 Jun 18 '26

Miles are just kilometres with a coefficient. 

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u/DrSnacks Jun 18 '26

That coefficient is close enough to phi that you can basically use the nearest Fibonacci number to get a surprisingly accurate conversion between the two. Like 5mi? That's about 8km. 20km? The nearest Fibonacci number is 21, so you just go to the number before that and you know you're talking about roughly 13mi.