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There's some things imperial is just better at. Like temperature. 100 f is hot, but literally not even half as hot as 100 c. We as people can perceive imperial temperatures a lot better than metric.
On “we as people can perceive imperial temperatures a lot better than metric,” I’d agree to disagree here - Celsius is pretty straight-forward. Temperate is temperature, it’s just about what numbers you’re assigning to which temperatures.
0°C is when water freezes, and 100°C is when water boils. A 10°C day is cold, a 20°C day is mild, a 30°C day is hot, and a 40°C day is when you melt.
Whatever you grew up with is probably what is going to be easiest for you to comprehend, but Celsius is no more difficult or less perceptible, just a different value range.
Easier to remember that water freezes at zero and boils at 100 vs 32 and 212? (Im in US)
I'd argue that's just because you're more familiar with Fahrenheit (making the assumption you grew up with it).
Celsius is just as 'good' as anything, better if you consider that measuring temperature extends beyond human comfort ranges.
That is just absolute nonsense.
I am a Swede, I grew up with the celsius scale and it makes far, far more sense than Farenheit.
In Celsius, 0 is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point of water, it makes sense.
Farenheit on the other hand starts at 0F, set as the freezing temperature of a custom made brine, and 90F was set as Farenheit's best estimate of the average body temperature, tuis was later revized as 96F.
The custom brine solution is a good start as long as it is made custom from scratch using distilled water and pure salt meassured exactly.
The 90F/96F is just dumb.
As for you being able to perceive F temps better than C temps, that is just because you are used to F over C.
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree celsius—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the imperial system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
Cool. Any other uninteresting facts you'd like to share?
Here, I'm not who you replied to, but you'll get my "uninteresting" fact anyway: The US customary units (at least most of them) are defined using the metric system.
Lots!
"we as people" - citation needed, lol.
But I don't disagree with you. Of course we'd have to switch from kelvin to ... Was it Rankine? ... To keep everything consistent and some physics constants would have to change as well.
The advantage of the metric system is the scaling. The base value does not matter. We could measure everything in feet for all I care, but no inches or miles then! Only kilofeet, centifeet, millifeet, etc! And we need a better distinction between force and weight than "pound" and "pound-force" - seriously, whoever came up with must have had negative creativity.
Please elaborate. I'm trying to understand why you think that people perceive Fahrenheit better than Celsius (metric).
A human has a core temperature between 36.1°C (97°F) and 37.2°C (99°F). If a person has a fever, it can be anything from 38°C (100.4°F) to 40°C (104°F). If we then don't have a thermometer to measure the temperature, our perception of "hot" will be the same when trying to determine if there's a fever or not.
Down at the beach water freezes at 0°C (32°F) and boils at 100°C (212°F). So it's dead simple for a 3 year old to understand since they just have to see the ice/ steam.
100°F not so much since there's nothing you have that you can relate to that is 100°F exactly.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ipw8GjRUfiA?si=RjD075y0aS6xCQHA
At least these idiots agree with you. Water freezes at 30% hot!
"The 100 is hot" idea is not only completely arbitrary and human centric, but also a vague personal perception. And I'm trying to be nice because it's actually egocentric buffoonery that stems from the idea that everything revolves around us, whereas the metric scale puts people inside a measurable scientific interconnected system instead of our feelings being the center.
This is entirely the result of what you're used to and has nothing to do with the system itself.