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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-12-27 15:11, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 5:53:23 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2021-12-26 19:36, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Saturday, December 25, 2021 at 6:35:26 PM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> On 2021-12-24 04:40, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>>> In article <00B6DA8D... at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-
>>>>>> @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
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>> F is harder to use because all scientific work is not using it, or
>> anything close to it. Using C makes it very easy to do most scientific
>> work. Many times you are looking at temperature relatives, in which case
>> C and K are identical. And the times you actually have to deal with
>> absolute temperatures, it's just a simple addition and you are done.
>>
>> That *is* easier.
> 
> OK, let me re-quote that for readability:
> 
> You wrote:
> "F is harder to use because all scientific work is not using it, or
> anything close to it. Using C makes it very easy to do most scientific
> work. Many times you are looking at temperature relatives, in which case C and K are identical. And the times you actually have to deal with absolute temperatures, it's just a simple addition and you are done. That *is* easier."
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone in science using C unless they're converting to it for ordinary daily use, like the temperature ranges for drugs. Maybe chemists do. Physicists don't, AFAIK. (Physics is a rather broad field. Maybe the condensed matter people use it, for instance. Not my sub-field.)

I wonder if you are missing the point on purpose. I didn't say they use 
C. I said that when you are in C, things becomes very easy, since most 
of the work you do with temperatures are using relative temperatures, at 
which point K and C are identical.

How hard can that be to understand?

When I want to compute the energy required to heat water at 0 C to 20 C, 
I'm looking at the energy required to heat water by 20 degrees. Don't 
matter if it's in K or C. It turns out to be the same.

But I suspect you are not going to accept that no matter how much I 
repeat it. After having to help my daughter with her gymnasium physics 
this last year I can tell that I'm very happy she didn't have to also 
deal with conversions from F in addition to all the numbers she had to 
throw around. It would *not* have helped.

   Johnny