Stuff You Should Know - Short Stuff: Fahrenheit or Celsius

Episode Date: June 28, 2023

Fahrenheit or Celsius? Why not both? If they can agree - exactly at -40 degrees  - then it seems like we should all be able to agree they're both great as well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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is here with us, too. And Dave. Is there a fourth measure of temperature? M-m-m-muggie? Dave, Dave Muggie C is here in spirit. Yeah, I'm not sure what just happened to me. M-muggie? That was great, Chuck.

Celcius and Farron Hyde is something we've been talking about a little bit lately on the show. Sometimes we do that. What do you call it? Conversion? Conversion, almost a transformation. That's the same thing. Sometimes we do that conversion. Sometimes we don't. And we, you know, some people ask us to and sometimes we remember. So we apologize if we don't often do that conversion. Yeah, we're selective. Okay. Yeah. Because here, we're here, okay? Yeah, because here we're here in the United States, which means we're all about Fahrenheit.

So really, it would just make sense for us to convert everything to Celsius. Yeah. And we're talking about temperature, because basically the rest of the world is all about Celsius. We'll talk about that in a little bit. First Chuck, I want to throw back,

I don't remember what episode it was, but we mentioned a guy named Seymohaya, who is known as the White Death in World War II. He was finished, and he killed more Nazis than anyone else, and he was just a simple farm hand. I think that might have been a listener male or something. Okay, so we talked about how he would go out and shoot people even in weather as low as negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit And that set off an avalanche of emails from people say you didn't have to say Fahrenheit because negative 40 is the same in

Celsius in Fahrenheit It's the only temperature that's the same in these two different scales and we're going to talk about why finally after all these years That's right and big thanks to howstuffworks.com and Jessel and Shields and our old friend Patrick J. Keiger, because they put it in a very simple way that's very easy to understand, is that these two different temperatures, and we'll talk about the differences,

but Celsius is larger than Fahrenheit. And so when that happens as a runner who is faster than another runner, eventually you can lap that slower runner and eventually Celsius will lap Fahrenheit. And you lap Fahrenheit at negative 40. Yeah, and the reason why Celsius is bigger than Fahrenheit is because you have more of a temperature range Compressed into a smaller scale where Fahrenheit has the same temperature range pulled out over a longer scale The thing is is even when you're talking about that. It still didn't quite make sense to me I'm like yeah a runner can lap a runner when he's slow, but still don't quite get it and finally I looked up I looked it up on I think Kora Came back with the best explanation. They said, think of it as a graph. So you've got

Fahrenheit going up at one angle and Celsius going up at a slightly different angle. If you zoom out long enough on that graph or far enough on that graph, eventually those two lines are going to connect with one another. Since they're spreading out from zero in different directions, they're not going to connect there, but they'll connect behind them in the negative, and they just so happen to connect at negative 40. Right, because Celsius is one, each degree is 1.8 times larger than Fahrenheit, right? Yeah, again, because there's more compressed into a smaller scale. Right, and that's why you get different freezing and boiling points. Of course, everyone knows Fahrenheit freezes at 32 and boils at 212. Celsius is much cleaner and easier to

remember because water freezes at zero and boils at 100. Yeah. So if you really want to think about it, it takes much more sophistication and brain power to understand pharant height than Celsius. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Speak to you guys in American. Yeah. So if you were to do the formula for conversion, which we don't, do we just look it up

and type it in our little wonder machines? Yes, but now we can in our heads even. Yeah, because if you have a, if you want to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, you multiply that temp in Celsius by that 1.8, which is what we talked about was a difference in size. Yes. And then you add 32. It's that simple. That's it.

I mean, that's, it's so, for example, so I, like I still, if I see like a temperature in Celsius, I'm like, I have no, no idea whether that's cold, hot, whatever. But let's take 20 degrees Celsius, for example. And you want to find out the Fahrenheit equivalent. You got 20, which is the Celsius degree times 1.8, that equals 36. Okay. And then you just add the 32. And the reason you're adding or subtracting 32 is because you're trying to zero out both scales.

You're trying to even them out from the same starting point. So you either add or subtract 32 whether you're trying to convert to ferrant height or Celsius. So in this case, 20 degrees Celsius adds up to be 68 degrees Fahrenheit. And then the same thing goes for Celsius too. You just flip it around, ferrant Fahrenheit minus 32 divided by 1.8. Same thing. And so if you do that same thing with negative 40 degrees Celsius,

you get negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit and vice versa because they intersect just at that one temperature. I love it. Now it makes sense. Yeah, or it does to me, I'm sure I probably just confused everybody. How about we take a break in and we'll just talk a little bit about why America, like many things, is still hung up on using something that the rest of the world does not.

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And that's it? Yeah. We use Fahrenheit, and we stuck with Fahrenheit. And it's just one of those sort of things that Americans stuck to when everyone else over time eventually went with Celsius or centigrade. No one says centigrade, though, do they? Well, that was Celsius's original term for it, but I've seen it some places. Eggheads call it centigrade.

A German scientist named Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, invented Fahrenheit in the early 1700s, and a sweetest astronomer, not too long. I think a few decades later name Anders Celsius, or was it Anders centigrade? I came up with Celsius and was like, hey, everybody, this is multiples of 10. It's a lot easier to remember. Works well with the metric system, so let's just use that.

Exactly. In the metric people were like, yes, it really does work. We're all about powers of 10 and 10 base counting systems. So let's go Celsius. We're all in with you. And Europe just kind of started to go that way. But in the English speaking world centered in the UK up until not that long agoite still reigned. And then finally in 1961, the Met Office in the UK said, hey, we're going to start talking about temperatures and Celsius,

because we look a little backwards compared to our European neighbors. And then as that happened, countries that were still part of the British Empire to one degree or another, get it degree, They started following suit and converting to Celsius too. But the US said, hey, King of England, Queen of England, we don't care whichever it is. You can't push us around. We're sticking with Fahrenheit. Yeah, even though it's kind of funny here,

the national weather service, the US national weather service, on the inside, they use Celsius, but they don't broadcast it out. They broadcast it out as Fahrenheit because Americans, of course, would be like, what are you even talking about with this Celsius stuff? Well, not only that. I mean, if word ever gets out that the National Weather Service actually uses Celsius internally, Americans will show up with pitchforks and torches and just burn their whole building

down. Led by Mothabartender. That's right. torches and just burn their whole building down. Led by Mothabartender. That's right. He always led the pitchforks in a torch crowd, which always was very funny to me. Well, that crowd's big drinker. So he wanted to make sure that he was in with them.

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