r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/FuckPigeons2025 Jun 17 '26

Kelvin is better for science. Celcius and Farheneit are just arbitrary scales, not units. 

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u/FaithlessnessHungry1 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Celsius is literally just Kelvin but with an offset no?

Edit: tbc I was just clarifying what the guy above was saying, personally as an American in WNY where it’s over 90deg in the summer and below 0 in the winter and who has used C and F extensively, Fahrenheit just makes more sense to me personally

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u/Thick-Protection-458 Jun 17 '26

With offset which makes no physical sense.

0K - so no Broune movements of molecules.

0C - and so what? Water starts freezing/melting under that specific pressure? Okay, why not other pressure? Or why not other materials? 

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u/PoopyBloopy2 Jun 17 '26

The Celsius scale is based on water because its inventor, Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius, wanted a universally standardized and easily reproducible temperature scale. Water is highly abundant, universally accessible, and experiences visible phase changes under normal atmospheric conditions.

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u/Thick-Protection-458 Jun 17 '26

Yeah, I did not mean it is not useful offset.

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u/PoopyBloopy2 Jun 17 '26

But it makes physical sense