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

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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