Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00360)

On Sun, 12 Jan 97, John Straughn wrote:

>Tom Robertson writes:

>>On Sat, 11 Jan 97, Bart Lidofsky  wrote:

>>>take the following: -500 = -1000. Is that correct? If you are talking about 
>>>temperature in the Farhenheit scale, then yes, it is. 

>>That a temperature of -500 might be equivalent to a temperature of -1000
>>does not make -500 equivalent to -1000.

>So ...you agree with the former statement?  To the untrained eye, perhaps, >it sounds (hehe) like you just repeated what he has said.

Yes.  I have heard that a temperature of -273 degrees fahrenheit is
absolute 0, meaning that no temperature colder than that is possible.  But
I don't see what that has to do with any law of mathematics.  And even if
it did, without there being a change in the laws of physics (or whatever
field studies temperature) the same thing will be true forever, since the
laws of mathematics are eternal.