AxialGem

AxialGem t1_j6md7h5 wrote

Reply to comment by TroyBenites in The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

That answer calls up another question.
Why do you view larger numbers as 'up?'
Because OP's thought said nothing about up or down of course, and there's nothing stopping you from making a thermometer where numbers that are physically higher on the thermometer are smaller numbers

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AxialGem t1_j6ma1ji wrote

Reply to comment by wildadragon in The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

It might be counterintuitive. Or that feeling might just be because we are used to our current system, idk. If I conceptualise my measurement as 'How still is this person?' I might put them lower, yea.

Of course, unintuitive scales do exist. For example, when astronomers measure how bright a star appears from Earth, brighter stars get a lower number, and dimmer stars get a higher number.

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AxialGem t1_j6m975o wrote

Reply to comment by Clackers2020 in The direction of temperature is arbitrary. There is no reason for hot objects to be assigned a larger number than cold ones by Crux_AMVS24

Why would you use zero as the 'upper limit'?
You could very easily make a scale where water freezes at 100 and boils at 0.
Then the absolute highest point on the scale would be 373.15, and anything warmer than boiling would just dip into negative figures

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AxialGem t1_j6k4ytc wrote

Reply to Considering the size and age of the universe, there must have been a situation where atoms moved in a way so they recreated the shrek movie in 1920x1080 quality somewhere. by Rat_Ramsay

That doesn't necessarily follow, right? It's not enough to know the size and age of the universe, you also have to know the chance of atoms moving that way. Of course, we live in a universe where that did happen, because, uh, that film exists. But that doesn't mean it's likely to happen ofc. It's like saying: given how many grains of sand there are on this beach, one of them must be an exact replica of the Taj Mahal down to the atom. When in fact, the number of possible arrangements of atoms in a grain of sand is vastly more than the number of grains of sand on the beach

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AxialGem t1_j6iea3b wrote

Reply to comment by Tuvey27 in The biggest compliment you can give a painter that it looks like a photograph, the biggest compliment for a photographer is that it looks like a painting. by [deleted]

Yea honestly if I were a mod, there would be a list of posts (the common ones that people repost word for word) and any account reposting them would instantly be permabanned (from the sub that is)

But also there would be a stickied post and a very clear warning dissuading people from doing that crap lol

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