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    41 minutes ago

    Right, so getting to that whole “temperature is a measure of average speed of atoms,” what’s the average speed of atoms in 100 degrees Celsius boiling water vs 100 degree celsius steam? Or for that matter any solid at any given temperature compared to any gas of the same temperature? See what I mean when I said not intuitive?

    Also, even in a vacuum a thermometer will eventually settle on a temperature it’ll just take longer to equalise.





  • I’ve heard that basically everywhere you go in space you will die by overheating because your body can’t radiate away the heat it generates. It’s weird to think that you can die from literally being cooked alive in a vacuum with a temperature of 0 degrees (readers choice of units).

    Temperature is one of the least intuitive things when really getting into the nitty gritty of it. One of my favorite things to prompt people with is to ask them what makes something twice as hot as something else?





  • I’ve been accused of providing ai generated information then I’ve provided a wiki source and gotten more downvotes. I feel like the only possible way someone could be convinced that a fact is an ai hallucination is to have read the fact I provided, googled said fact, seen the fact in the ai summary and then decided “it’s in the summary it must be false.” That’s such a hypocritical thing to do after accusing someone of being wrong and using ai in my opinion.

    There was this one magical time where posting a source got this one user to change their mind and I don’t know if I should be happy that it worked one time or sad that it’s only worked one time. Also still got downvoted, only after the person I replied to admitted they were wrong did people start coming around but the ratio was still fucked. Something like 50 votes of them saying I was wrong to my like 5 providing a source.