The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014)

Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by johnchristopher on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:05PM (#16516728)

> Almost Sokal-ish in its attempt to borrow some relevance. Zero C is not very special. Zero Kelvin is!

I am sorry if I give the impression of nitpicking but I live in a Celsius world and zero c is special because it means water freezes. (and snow instead of rain)

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by andlier on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:09PM (#16516753)

Zero Kelvin is still a different league of special scientifically speaking.

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by cdancette on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:13PM (#16516781)

It's special in our human world, but not in thermodynamics / physics. Water is just a molecule like all the others, it's not special.

Whereas 0K is the absolute minimum temperature, so that's a really special value!

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by johnchristopher on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:36PM (#16523189)

I'd say water freezing is still interesting thermodynamics/physics :). (But I agree 0K is another kind of mark)

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by dan-0 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:13PM (#16516784)

I see where your coming from here, and by all means 0 °C is more significant than say 0 °F. But water freezing at 0 °C is far less "special" than everything freezing at 0 K

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Re:The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happi... by johnchristopher on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:38PM (#16523202)

Sheesh, people... is the downvote really necessary ?

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