CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade temperatures ever

Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by rplnt on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:00AM (#4381209)

Did they just totally ignore units in the whole article? (Yes, they did). Anyway, in the comments author said it's in degrees Celsius, if anyone was wondering (as at that scale the difference is quite big).

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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by aroberge on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @11:56AM (#4381550)

What did you expect: Farenheit?... Any scientific paper will refer to temperature either in Kelvin or Celsius ... and the difference between the two at that scale is quite small.

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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by rplnt on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @05:16AM (#4385206)

Yeah, K/°C difference is small, but I didn't expect Kelvin as it isn't a "degree". And I don't know that site/portal/.. If it were US newspaper, I would expect it to be in degrees F without mentioning it. It happens.

Also, any scientific paper should use units. But to be fair, even though the difference between Farenheit and Celsius is huge at this scale, I can't really imagine it or compare it.

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Re:CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieves the hottest manmade... by ElectroPrime on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @04:45PM (#4382975)

Kelvin and Celsius use the same scale, except the Kelvin scale's zero point is absolute zero.

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