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More like guidelines (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming this is because the concept of absolute zero did not exist when most of these temperature scales were defined, whereas zero distance and zero weight were easily observable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

zero weight were easily observable

how?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People looked at yo mama and could immediately conceive of the opposite

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

conceive of the opposite

Meh I don't believe that they could avoid overshooting to negative weight

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

How much water, by weight, is in an empty cup? Round to the nearest amount an average 17th century merchant could identify.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess in terms of an actual weightless object... Not... But if you have 2 equal weight items, call their combined weight 1 weight unit, take one away, that's half a weight unit, take two away, that's zero weight units.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Clouds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Clouds