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if it's zero degrees out and tomorrow it is going be twice as cold, how cold will it be?
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October 15, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 15, 2005 (changed October 15, 2005) Permalink

If a stick starts out being two feet long and then it becomes twice as short, it becomes one foot long. Since there is such a thing as absolute zero, I would have thought that twice as cold as temperature T Kelvin is T/2. (But I'm assuming that the Kelvin scale is linear...) So work out what the zero you have in mind corresponds to in degrees Kelvin and, as they say in England, Bob's your uncle.

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