Granted. Celsius now range from 0 to 50
Edit: … or whatever unit you prefer. It’s still the same
Oh, it’s way better than the alternative interpretation.
Half Kelvins?
30°C is 303.15K, half 151.575K is a nice and chilly -121.575°C lower than any recorded temp on earth by about 21°C. When working with monkeys paw or genies always declare your units and reference frames.
No.
This knowledge comes in handy with marketing BS around CPU coolers. If an aftermarket cooler gets a CPU to 35C when the stock cooler is at 70C, marketing will sometimes claim it cut temperatures in half.
perhaps it cuts generated temperature in half, ie idle cpu is 50C, stock 70C, and aftermarket 60C
Careful, half of what, kelvin?
That is indeed the joke.
Obviously we’d all die but I wonder how exactly. This would make a good question for Randall Munroe.
90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.
It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection unless you want necrotic frostbite) is about 150 F warmer than that.
It depends on conductive and convective transfer at that point. The atmosphere would be vastly different as that’s well below the point where CO2 would snow out but you should still have enough gasses to flash freeze you.
I use this as an example for interval vs ratio; you can’t halve Celsius because it’s an interval scale where zero is arbitrary. Kelvin is ratio as it has an absolute zero-- you very much can halve it and doom near the entire planet next summer
arguably setting zero to absolute zero is just as arbitrary
A good genie would instantly invent a metric of “number of degrees in excess of room temperature”
The indoor temperature is always at room temperature and vice versa. It’s not constant though.
Is that Kurt Angle?
I think it’s acute angle
