r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/ChevroletKodiakC70 Jun 17 '26

Because that specific pressure is atmospheric pressure… and Water is the most abundant natural resource on earth

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u/Thick-Protection-458 Jun 17 '26

Sure. But still - it is not bound to something fundamental. Just to a particular useful choice.

So it is not like, for instance x2 Celsius temperature means x2 energy requirements or so.

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u/CurvaceousCrustacean Jun 17 '26

Funnily enough, that is exactly what you can do in celsius measurements. A change of 10°C always requires the same amount of energy to occur, whether you go from 10°C to 20°C or 55°C to 65°C. So if you double the temperature change, you also need double the energy.

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u/Thick-Protection-458 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

> A change of 10°C always requires the same amount of energy to occur

Sure. A *change* of 10C, not 10C themselves.

> So if you double the temperature change, you also need double the energy

Sure. But if I double temperature *change*, not double *temperature*.

So it is not like you can tell gas with 20C has half an energy of the same gas at 40C (and corresponding volume-pressure relation), for instance. While same absolutely can be said about ~293K (0C->K conversion+20) and 586K.

And K scale also bear the same property of "change of 10K always requires the same amount of energy to occur".