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Temperatures and Their Relationship with Distances

I was recently intrigued in science by temperatures, which was much more in depth than I had first thought. When I did some digging I found out, much to my astonishment they have a remarkable connection with and reliance on distances.

 Temperature has been measured on several scales throughout the centuries, and today we commonly use three. One is Fahrenheit, which is an evolved scale from the one originally proposed by its namesake, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. 32 degrees marks the freezing point of water and 212 degrees marks the boiling point. The second, and most widely used, is the Celsius scale, which is an adaptation of the scale proposed by Anders Celsius. 0 degrees Celsius is the freezing point of water and 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point. The third scale, called Kelvin due to its creator, Lord Kelvin, is one of the seven base units in the International System of Units and is also the scale most widely used in scientific experiments. 0 degrees Kelvin is absolute zero, where there is no thermal activity whatsoever.

Distances have been measured in many different ways by many different peoples. There are two systems used around the world at this point in time. The metric system and the Imperial system. These each have more than just distances in them, such as weights and degrees. However they each have a distance measurement, the longest of which is either the kilometer or the mile. The Planck distance is determined via three things: the speed of light in a vacuum, Planck’s constant, and the gravitational constant. But the important thing about it is that it is the shortest distance measurable without using quantum mechanics.


(This is a model of a standard wavelength, the shortest of which is the Planck Temperature)

 Temperature can only go so far down, as the Kelvin scales zero is absolute zero. However did you know there is an absolute maximum too? The absolute maximum is the “Planck temperature” which occurs when the wavelength is one Planck long. The wavelength can go no shorter than this in relative physics and is therefore as hot as hot can go. This temperature is modeled by: 1.416785(71) x 10^32 Kelvin.

(This is a model of the “Big Bang Theory” which was the only time in the history of time that the Planck temperature has been reached)

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Time and love have meaning,

only so far as we believe in them.

For when they lose meaning,

we do things only on whim.

We believe that truth varies,

from every woman to man.

For when that truth varies,

any thing can be believed in.

And when all can be believed in,

nothing can be followed as true.

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