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hn_throwaway_99 8 hours ago

That makes no sense. A difference between a read of 37C and 38.8C is still 1.8C.

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ginko 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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hn_throwaway_99 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Dude, you are just completely making shit up, and it makes no sense.

So what if Celsius and Kelvin have different 0 points - they are still valid scales and you can talk about differences between 2 measurements.

According to your logic it would be impossible to state that two Fahrenheit measurements differ by some number of degrees F - why, I have no idea.

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dekhn 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make, but this is absolutely false from a scientific perspective.

If you believe otherwise, please provide some citations to your beliefs so we can understand what you are trying to say.

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hexer292 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Saying something is false and then asking for citations doesn't seem that helpful to me.

To support your argument, take the following example:

Lets take some water at 273.15 Kelvin and add 1 Kelvin of energy to it. The water is now at 274.15 Kelvin. The difference is of 1 Kelvin.

If we had the same amount of water at 0 degrees Celsius and added 1 Celsius of energy, the water would now be at 1 Celcius.

Converting these values leave us with 273.15 Kelvin and 274.15 Kelvin respectively.

You can repeat this experiment (ignoring latent heat) for any value of Kelvin or Celsius, therefore Kevlin and Celsius are interchangeable in reference to temperature comparasion.

	▲	dekhn 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I believe any chemistry or physics textbook will state (possibly indirectly) how temperature deltas work. But I think it's sufficient to just say that Kelvin and Celsius have the same scale magnitude and just a constant offset.