AxialGem t1_j6mi2s9 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 11:26 AM

Reply to comment by Crux_AMVS24 in The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

huh well today I learned. I'm far away from being that knowledgable about physics, but that's pretty interesting. Of course, that's not super intuitive to the average lay person either... But sure, thanks for the explanation lol

Crux_AMVS24 OP t1_j6mjfve wrote on January 31, 2023 at 11:43 AM

Yeah, I tried not getting too technical with it in terms of my explanations, but at some point you gotta whip em out. Also, about the intuition. Wouldn’t there be any of that for temperature? If stick my hand in hot water and the other hand in ice, there isn’t anything that strikes me saying that the hot water should have a higher number attached to it. For something like distance, it’s obviously, bigger distance = higher number, but when it comes to temperature, we could have gone either way and nothing would’ve changed except some formulae