AxialGem t1_j6m975o wrote on January 31, 2023 at 9:23 AM

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

Clackers2020 t1_j6m9d4w wrote on January 31, 2023 at 9:26 AM

It was just a non-arbitary point. My point still stands with whatever number you choose. Because there's no maximum temperature you'd still eventually end up in negatives.

AxialGem t1_j6m9oab wrote on January 31, 2023 at 9:30 AM

Yea, that's true. But...scale with negative numbers is still a perfectly functional scale of course. I'm just saying OP's thought is still valid I guess :p