• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We don’t have issues with decimals in many places. For example, why are there pennies? Why aren’t dollars just scaled up 100? Generally speaking: why don’t people immediately shift to the lower unit when talking about e.g. 3.5 miles? If you’re correct, those should be simplified too - yet they aren’t.

    Why bother with Celcius at all when there is Kelvin.

    Because Celsius uses a scale that relies on temperatures you’re encountering in your everyday life.

    Even Kelvin is arbitrary. Best to use Plank normalized temperature. The scale would be absolute 0 to 100 where 0 is absolute 0 and 100 is 10^32 Kelvin.

    Why? That scale is still arbitrarily chosen.