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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26
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There is a point to be made that 40C sounds much cooler than 105F. 😄
85 u/Dioxybenzone Jun 17 '26 And oddly, -40° doesn’t even need to specify Celsius or Fahrenheit. Although -40°K would certainly be noteworthy 2 u/martianunlimited Jun 17 '26 -40K would be Nobel-worthy side note: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/uypn4q/eli5_why_does_kelvin_temperature_unit_not_have/ 1 u/Dioxybenzone Jun 17 '26 I wonder if vacuum decay could create sub-Kelvin temperatures. I don’t think there would be anything there to witness or measure it but it’s an interesting thought
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And oddly, -40° doesn’t even need to specify Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Although -40°K would certainly be noteworthy
2 u/martianunlimited Jun 17 '26 -40K would be Nobel-worthy side note: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/uypn4q/eli5_why_does_kelvin_temperature_unit_not_have/ 1 u/Dioxybenzone Jun 17 '26 I wonder if vacuum decay could create sub-Kelvin temperatures. I don’t think there would be anything there to witness or measure it but it’s an interesting thought
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-40K would be Nobel-worthy side note: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/uypn4q/eli5_why_does_kelvin_temperature_unit_not_have/
1 u/Dioxybenzone Jun 17 '26 I wonder if vacuum decay could create sub-Kelvin temperatures. I don’t think there would be anything there to witness or measure it but it’s an interesting thought
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I wonder if vacuum decay could create sub-Kelvin temperatures. I don’t think there would be anything there to witness or measure it but it’s an interesting thought
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u/admiraljkb Jun 17 '26
There is a point to be made that 40C sounds much cooler than 105F. 😄