{"id":425,"date":"2008-01-05T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T18:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/05\/thinking\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T18:26:44","slug":"thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/05\/thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mind works in strange ways sometimes. Read and think about each of the following statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>I was cooking a pizza in the oven at 250 degrees, but I was in a big hurry, so I doubled the temperature to 500 degrees.<\/li>\n    <li>I miss the summer days when it was 80 degrees, and, over night, the temperature would be halved to 40 degrees.<\/li>\n    <li>It was ten degrees the other morning, and tripled to thirty by noon.<\/li>\n    <li>It was 0.1 the morning before that, and had risen three-hundred times to 30 degrees by noon.<\/li>\n    <li>It was -1 before I woke up that morning, so it was -30 times as warm by noon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To me, it makes progressively less and less sense. But I&#8217;m trying to think of why. It&#8217;s clearly asymptotic at 0 degrees: if it&#8217;s exactly 0 degrees and grows to 0.1 degrees, it&#8217;s &#8220;infinitely warmer.&#8221; Of course, most people wouldn&#8217;t notice the tenth of a degree increase, and my concept of &#8220;infinitely warmer&#8221; is something significantly warmer than 0.1. And it doesn&#8217;t make <em>any<\/em> sense when you go into negatives. I think another part of the problem is that &#8220;zero&#8221; degrees doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;zero warmth,&#8221; since it doesn&#8217;t make sense to have a negative amount of warmth. (Assuming that &#8220;no warmth&#8221; isn&#8217;t neutral, but is absolute zero.) Of course, Fahrenheit and Celsius don&#8217;t even grow at the same rate, compounding things further.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mind works in strange ways sometimes. Read and think about each of the following statements: I was cooking a pizza in the oven at 250 degrees, but I was in a big hurry, so I doubled the temperature to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/05\/thinking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insanity","category-living","category-ocd","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}