From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:03:11 +0100, David Wade wrote:   
      
   > On 22/04/2025 23:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The only logical temperature scale is one where zero means zero. That   
   >> means absolute temperature, i.e. Kelvin.   
   >   
   > Of course, logical but impractical.   
      
   I don’t see why. Consider how your weather report gives readings for   
   atmospheric pressure: if it were to be “practical” by analogy with   
   temperature, then the scale would have zero correspond to normal   
   atmospheric pressure, while high-pressure systems would have positive   
   numbers in their centres, and low-pressure ones negative numbers in   
   theirs.   
      
   And it would be more “intuitive”, too, wouldn’t it, because we simply   
   don’t feel the full normal atmospheric pressure squeezing down on our   
   bodies.   
      
   But we don’t do that. All the numbers are around 1000 millibars (or   
   hectopascals, or whatever), on a scale which goes down to hard vacuum   
   which you will never see in a weather report.   
      
   If people can cope with that in pressures, why not in temperatures?   
      
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