Memes @lemmy.ml Sjmarf @sh.itjust.works 6 mo. ago

They forgot about Rankine

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Kelvin is an absolute scale, not measured in degrees
- Isn’t radians a measure of angles, or am I not getting the joke?
  
  That was the joke, which I was trying to help further by pretending that there was nothing wrong with that.
  
  The joke is because of "degrees" (also to measure angles) and "radians"
  
  I mean, you could just convert the Farenheit or Celsius degrees to radians like they were angle degrees. "Bake at 6.109 radians for 45 minutes" still can mean "Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes" if you accept the implicit Farenheit scale. Radians would still be ambiguous regarding the base scale used, but it's as ambiguous as "degrees" is so not really an issue.
  
  So I mean, there's no real reason to do it but also no reason you can't.
- Well look at mister smarty-pants with his science facts over here!
Joule is the best unit you can literally apply it to everything because it's essentially a raw unit of energy.
- Joules is unfortunately a vector because it's over a distance in a direction. Temperature is a scalar. Sometimes scalars are better than vectors.
  
  Edit:Ok for those who don't actually understand joules in its units J=KG•M^2/s2 or N•D, it's force which is a vector over a distance, this requires a magnitude and direction. This is because force is a vector and Joules is using force. All of you are starting to be confidently incorrect... Joules is a vector you can search it up.
  
  Joules is unfortunately a vector because it's over a distance in a direction.
  
  What? Joule is an energy unit and energy is a scalar quantity and not a vector. There is no "energy direction" and no "distance".
  
  Edit: even your edit doesn't make sense. Provide a source that says that energy or joule is somehow a vector.
  
  If you set one of the axis to 1 than it's effectively a scalar that's why I love it so much.
My scale for expressing mean kinetic energy flux is superior to your scale for expressing mean kinetic energy flux. I have formed an identity around this and will smugly argue about it on the internet.
- Hey now, I don't argue for Celsius, I just argue against people saying Fahrenheit is better for silly reasons.
Gradians.

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- Quaternions.
  
  Multivectors.
- Just go for Fahrenkelsius, it's the obvious choice
This confuses me. That's why I only use fairandheight.

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