elder abuser
Old People Fear Me
Is 2 degrees fahrenheit twice as hot as 1 degree fahrenheit?
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Not the least bit.
Something at 2 degrees has a little bit more energy in it.
Something at 2 degrees has a little bit more energy in it.
Or better yet, is 2 degrees Kelvin twice as hot as one degree Kelvin? 
Portugal
Yaaarr!
Or better yet, is 2 degrees Kelvin twice as hot as one degree Kelvin?
Same as the first answer, isn't it?
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Or better yet, is 2 degrees Kelvin twice as hot as one degree Kelvin?
Why yes, yes it is.
warpus
In pork I trust
I think in the case of Kelvin it might be, since 0K is the lowest possible temperature (not counting quantum effects)
no it isn't.
No, because farenheit doesn't start at "the beginning" like Kelvin does.
You know what? I think you're right.
nonconformist
Miserable
Fahrenheit doesn't as it's a relative scale, whereas kelvin is an absolute so it does.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
No, but -457.67 degrees Fahrenheit is twice as hot as -458.67 degrees Fahrenheit...
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
But which feels colder, -40 degrees celsius or -40 degrees fahrenheit?
Neither feels as cold as 243 Kelvins.
nonconformist
Miserable
-40 is a lot less than 0 degrees.
Depending on the scale used. Although 233 kelvins is equal to -40 C. So looks like we were both wrong, lousy math skills . . .
Not really. Well, you can't define "twice as hot" in any sensible terms. At least not unless you're using the absolute Kelvin scale, and even that is quite a stretch.
You can calculate the kinetic temperature of matter as 3/2 * kB * T, where T is the temperature and kB is the Boltzmann constant. 1 Farenheit is 256 Kelvin and 2 F is just the slightest bit more, 256.5 Kelvin. So the kinetic temperature would barely change at 2F compared to 1F.
You can calculate the kinetic temperature of matter as 3/2 * kB * T, where T is the temperature and kB is the Boltzmann constant. 1 Farenheit is 256 Kelvin and 2 F is just the slightest bit more, 256.5 Kelvin. So the kinetic temperature would barely change at 2F compared to 1F.
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
I tried searching for the Furry Freak Brothers comic where Fat Freddy gets lost inside his freezer. In that episode he says "It's freezing in here, it must be 40 below! I wonder what that is in Celsius?" and the editor says "They are the same!". But no joy 
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
no, one temperature is only double another when they are both in the kelvin scale (40 F is not double 20 F, but 300 K is double 150 K)
Ecofarm
Deity
http://www.csgnetwork.com/tempconvjava.html
http://www.teaching-english-in-japan.net/conversion/celsius
ps. Temperature is not a logarithmic scale; it is linear.
EDIT: Oops, didn't mean to bump this silliness.
I guess we'd have to ask the Canadians and the Alaskans. I'm sure they'll both say that "-40 is not really all that cold"
