this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
752 points (97.1% liked)

Science Memes

10988 readers
1669 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The scale doesn't matter, double is always double. No matter if expressed in 1m is half of 2m, or 3ft is half of 6ft. Same is true for temperature, als long as the zero point is fixed.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Scale always matters, it is the anchor point for shared communication.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Double is a scale in itself, it assumes the first thing as 1 and the second thing as 2. The are no other scales needed when I say something is double the other thing. The other thing is the scale here.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago