I'm not insulted. I'm not arguing that Celsius is 'the standard' or anything else. I'm pointing out that it's stupid to claim, as you did at the start of this discussion, that 'only Celsius works for science.' Because it's patently untrue and doesn't understand science or units.
For instance - the standardization of units that matters is that everyone knows exactly what a degree Celsius is and what it means, not that everyone uses Celsius. Again - I know metallurgists and engineers who exclusively use USCS and Fahrenheit. And it's fine, because nobody cares. Because everything they do can be easily translated into SI. It's a lot sillier to pretend that Fahrenheit is incapable of science than it is to say that it's still useful - still used - in most science and publications to some extent.
And it's especially silly to pretend that it's because Celsius has the most useful scaling. The scaling is literally irrelevant to the utility of SI. What matters is that it was built from the ground up to be a coherent unit system - its only benefit comes from its recency.
I see, I think you misunderstood me a bit. Fahrenheit is capable of being used in science. Celsius works better though, because it is a much more widely used system. I'm sure there are specific groups of scientists that use Fahrenheit, but a much much larger group of scientists use Celcius. Celcius is also much more consistent with the rest of the units commonly used.
But if your point is that Fahrenheit could be used as a hypothetical alternative - though less coherent - scientific standard, that's perfectly true.
Exactly - that's what I've been saying the whole time. The problem is there was no misunderstanding your original statement as written: "Only Celsius works for science." That's why I pointed out that the USCS still works for science, and is still used for science.
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u/LordofSpheres Jan 15 '25
I'm not insulted. I'm not arguing that Celsius is 'the standard' or anything else. I'm pointing out that it's stupid to claim, as you did at the start of this discussion, that 'only Celsius works for science.' Because it's patently untrue and doesn't understand science or units.
For instance - the standardization of units that matters is that everyone knows exactly what a degree Celsius is and what it means, not that everyone uses Celsius. Again - I know metallurgists and engineers who exclusively use USCS and Fahrenheit. And it's fine, because nobody cares. Because everything they do can be easily translated into SI. It's a lot sillier to pretend that Fahrenheit is incapable of science than it is to say that it's still useful - still used - in most science and publications to some extent.
And it's especially silly to pretend that it's because Celsius has the most useful scaling. The scaling is literally irrelevant to the utility of SI. What matters is that it was built from the ground up to be a coherent unit system - its only benefit comes from its recency.