[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, December 26, 2021 at 11:46:42 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/26/21 11:13 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: 
> > On 2021-12-26 00:33, Dave Froble wrote: 
> >> On 12/25/2021 6:05 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: 
> >>> On 2021-12-24 04:09, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> >>>> Anyway, regarding Fahrenheit: Americans aren't switching to the 
> >>>> "standard," 
> >>>> Celsius, for the same reason you're not using a Dvorak keyboard. 
> >>>> Actually, if 
> >>>> you want to go all the way you should be using Kelvin, the only "true" 
> >>>> temperature scale in use. 
> >>> 
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> Other than some labs, who actually uses Kelvin? I didn't in 
> High School chemistry or physics. I didn't in college chemistry 
> or physics. And I certainly never have in real life beyond seeing 
> it used in a science fiction book once in a while. :-) 

Someone was bragging about standards and SI units and such. The SI temperature scale is kelvins, not Celsius.

Man, you had some pretty lame physics and chemistry courses! Thermodynamics uses kelvins. The ideal gas law works in kelvins, not Celsius. As a Ph.D. in physics, I can tell you that Celsius has no place other than establishing its definition based on -- kelvins!

> 
> bill

Alan