#Metrology

[4denthusiast]

So, the Celsius vs. Farenheit thing is obviously silly, in that people are just going to find whichever they're used to more intuitive, but that said...

I disagree with the "Farenheit uses digits more efficiently for everyday discussions about the weather" thing. A single degree Farenheit seems to me imperceptibly small. A single degree Celsius is roughly the limit of what I find perceptible, but is still a pretty small, insignificant difference. People who say Farenheit uses its digits more effectively seem to be basically just ignoring the 10^0 digit and just using the 10^1 digit instead. That's not efficient. I'm not sure I'd say Celsius is significantly better. "20"/"low 20s"/"mid 20s"/"high 20s" (in Celsius) seems to be about the level of precision people normally use.

This suggests that a temperature scale that's actually optimised for using its digits effectively for everyday use would be roughly a few times the size of Celsius. There happens to be just such a scale, one that pre-dates both Celsius and Farenheit even: degrees Newton. 0°N=0°C=32°F, so we keep the freezing point of water as a nice landmark, very relevant to discussing the weather. A difference of 1°N is roughly 3°C or 5.5°F. A large proportion of normal weather is in the range 0°Q to 9°N, necessitating only a single digit (how's that for efficiency?). A single degree is a small but clear difference, around the level of precision people normally use. If you want to go to fractional degrees, that's fine, but it's marked as something unusually precise. Maybe they'd do that in weather forecasts. 10°N, a clear milestone, is about 30°C or 87°F, which is distincly hot weather. 20°N is roughly the maximum recorded temperature the weather on Earth has reached. The next big milestone, 100°N, doesn't really correspond to anything important I can think of. It's pretty high even for cooking, just slightly higher than the melting point of lead.

Newton's scale does have a major disadvantage that it's not actually clearly defined, since Newton only gave a single reference point, but that's not relevant to the current discussion. Maybe something slightly more fine-grained than degrees Newton would be a little better. I was originally going to use my own made-up scale with units of 2.5°C for this post before learning that the Newton scale already exists.

Anyway. Obviously I'm not actually proposing that people adopt Newton's temperature scale. Pretty much any temperature scale vaguely around the range of Celcius/Farenheit/Newton/Rømer/whatever would do fine for everyday use (even Kelvin wouldn't be that bad, just so long as you're not using something like joules (≅7.25*10^22 K)). I just wanted to make the point that the "Farenheit uses its digits efficiently." thing isn't actually right, it's just that Farenheit uses its digits in the way that Farenheit users are used to.

[maybe-apangolin]

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[graffiti-library]

- Metrology, Classic Amsterdam Subway Graffiti - 2022 - 

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[man-and-atom]

The reporter at the Jerusalem Post who has the “meteor beat” is clearly making the most of it.

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[geopolicraticus]

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[amysteriousburning]

Fun fact: the strength of gravity varies by over 1% across the surface of the Earth, so most normal scales are only accurate to that degree (because you have no idea where it was calibrated for). Balance scales don't have that problem, which is why your doctor probably still uses one.

Earth’s gravity isn’t smooth at the surface but is stronger in some places than others.

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[ftsharp]

In 1742, Anders Celsius redesigned Delisle’s recalibrated temperature scale, and named it the centigrade scale, now reversed and called the Celsius scale. Poetry by Tom Sharp.

[mechanical30]

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[onemetricdylan]

So i just read this book on the history of measurement, and it has an entire chapter about reference standards like these cigarettes. There’s a hub of curated standards for studies/industry including an “exceptionally average” jar of creamy peanut butter, approximately $400

i totally understand why these exist (consistent control group for scientific studies on the health impacts of smoking) but something about the phrase "kentucky reference cigarette" just tickles my brain

[samautomation]

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