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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm assuming this is because the concept of absolute zero did not exist when most of these temperature scales were defined, whereas zero distance and zero weight were easily observable

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

zero weight were easily observable

how?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People looked at yo mama and could immediately conceive of the opposite

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

conceive of the opposite

Meh I don't believe that they could avoid overshooting to negative weight

[–] _danny 8 points 1 year ago

How much water, by weight, is in an empty cup? Round to the nearest amount an average 17th century merchant could identify.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I guess in terms of an actual weightless object... Not... But if you have 2 equal weight items, call their combined weight 1 weight unit, take one away, that's half a weight unit, take two away, that's zero weight units.