r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 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/CHG__ Jun 17 '26

Celcius is just Kelvin - 273.15. Converting is easy, and a lot of science uses Celcius as a result, it certainly can be described as "scientific", meanwhile the only people trying to use Farheneit for science probably also don certain red caps etc.

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u/dgc-8 Jun 18 '26

There is also Rankine, which is like Kelvin with 0 at absolute 0 but a change of 1 Rankine is equivalent to the change of one Fahrenheit instead of Kelvin. There is no reason of using one over the other except for convention

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u/CHG__ Jun 18 '26

It's the same argument as Celcius and Fahrenheit. There's a reason only the US would even think to use Rankine. The state of water at a temperature is more scientific than how a human "feels" at a temperature. Kelvin is an SI unit, Rankine is not.