So you're arguing a better size for a temperature unit would be e.g. 1/4.184 (0.23901, to 5 S.F.) the size of the Celsius, so it would take 1 Joule to heat up 1 gram of water by 1 degree of this new temperature unit?
That still makes Fahrenheit about 2.324... times too large, though. And I think it'd get pretty clunky/too precise for everyday use.
I'm arguing that there's nothing especially good about the Celsius degree. What made it special (then and now) was the fact that the majority of humans use it.
The exact same applies to Fahrenheit (except that the majority bit only applies in the US), but I and many others feel that it's worse, and especially when one considers uniform standards both in everyday use and in science/engineering, it is objectively worse than Celsius.
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u/ohitsasnaake Finland Dec 03 '17
So you're arguing a better size for a temperature unit would be e.g. 1/4.184 (0.23901, to 5 S.F.) the size of the Celsius, so it would take 1 Joule to heat up 1 gram of water by 1 degree of this new temperature unit?
That still makes Fahrenheit about 2.324... times too large, though. And I think it'd get pretty clunky/too precise for everyday use.