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  • The thing that makes any unit useful is being an agreed upon standard, which is true of both F and C. the “feel right” part is just how it got there. When Celsius stuck a thermometer in freezing water and marked its position, he called that 100 degrees based on vibes. Later on, a french academic decided that actually freezing should be 0 and boiling should be 100, and that decision was based on vibes. Why is it any different when Farenheit made a vibes based decision to put 0 in a different spot than celsius?














  • Dabundis@lemmy.worldtoFoxes@lemmy.worldTilting fox
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    3 months ago

    Taking the opportunity to share a super fun fact about this. The ridges in a human’s outer ear allow us to determine whether a sound is coming from above or below by subconsciously noting how different frequencies are bouncing off those ridges. Animals without those ridges can only determine the lateral direction a sound is coming from relative to their head’s orientation, and their method of figuring out whether the sound is from above or below is to tilt their heads and “listen on a different plane”