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[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

A thermometer is like if we measured speed by crashing a car into a barrier and gauging how much it made the barrier shake.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 24 points 1 year ago

I mean, it would work, lol.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's really an average of all the traffic that was interrupted

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 54 points 1 year ago

When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates pronounced it "thermo meter" and I had to watch the science teacher struggle for a good 30 seconds to decide if he was going to correct him or not.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 44 points 1 year ago

For anyone confused.

Most other languages do call it a thermo meter or similar. People who are not native English speakers will pronounce it wrongly when speaking English, because the word is the same - it's just pronounced weirdly in both British and American English. The British and American pronunciations are not exactly the same on this, but they're both ~~wrong~~ different from any other languages, except Greek.

The English pronunciation is caused by English inheriting the Greek way of stressing the third last syllable on words of Greek origin. It makes no sense in my mind why they do it on compound words though. Meter is not Greek. It's English, so they could've chosen differently, but they obviously chose the most annoying way to pronounce it.

There's a few other words like that, but I don't remember which..

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

I think we should start pronouncing molecules or particles like Hercules, just to be consistent

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now you're just wrecking my mind.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Just as long they don't wreck your testicles.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think we can agree on that one.

In any of the languages that I know the pronunciation of, there are no differences in the pronunciation of deez nutz.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hah. That reminds me of a joke I used to play on my wife back when cars had cd players. After we got in the car, about once a month I would come up with

"Hey can you go and get that CD for the ride?"

"What CD?"

"See Deez Nutz."

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Ha. Thanks. I'll use that on my family today .

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Mole-cue-leez?

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[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Thermo meter Thermometer

Me: They are the same picture

Seriously though i did not understand which one I am pronouncing. I would usually read thermo meter and thermometer the same. When I try to differentiate by trying to make it sound together, or by trying to make more detatched, i just can't and end up pronouncing the same

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 10 points 1 year ago
[-] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

In Spanish as well. Ter-MO-metro

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[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks I guess i'll stick to thermo meter lol

[-] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Pedometer is the first one that comes to mind for me.

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[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Haha thanks! I was totally lost xD

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meter is not Greek.

Do you mean its pronunciation is not Greek?

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Both thermo and meter are from Greek, but the combination didn't exist until the 17th century

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

What you wrote before is confusing then.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago

I like to do that with a lot of the o'meters, just for fun.

Acceler-o-meter and seis-o-meter are my favorite. Weirdly least fun: kil-o-meter.

[-] Ageroth@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

Pedometer is my favorite of these. How many pedo's ya get in today?

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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 1 year ago

Corrected him. lol.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

My atoms sped up a bit during the decontamination scene.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Oh, great, now I have to rub one out again.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As we're both Trekkies, I tell my spouse who likes it warmer all the time that they're exposing us to unnecessary radiation leaks.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, he says, reveling in his pedantry: Speedometers actually measure net displacement, and since thermal energy causes collisions on the small scale, but results in very little net movement for the particles, its not quite like a speedometer.

I like to think of it as a ball pit with one of those super bounce ball stacks in it.

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't it be speed and crowding simultaneously?
Also, where would infrared photons fit in this scenario?

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

By that logic:

Officer, I couldn't have been speeding, the average speed of all the cars was below the speed limit!

[-] reinei@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Was it really though?

Including the speed of the parked cars, yes :)

[-] ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PV=nRT, or T=(PV)/(nR) You know, with gasses, temperature can be examined with respect to many factors.

I speak of gasses as many of us are just fartin’ around on Lemmy. Pressure I tell you. We’ve all just spent the day under a lot of pressure, or should I say…gasses?

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard this, but then I asked once what speed water molecules in a room temperature glass of water would be going. Are they like walking, driving, flying in a jet, or much faster? I was told my question didn’t have an answer since it didn’t really work that way or something.

I often wondered if the person answering just wasn’t able to make some assumption needed to answer because I didn’t state it in the question, or if saying thermometers measure speed is just wrong.

[-] L3mmyW1nks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

See figure 3 here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_temperature

As mentioned above, there are other ways molecules can jiggle besides the three translational degrees of freedom that imbue substances with their kinetic temperature. As can be seen in the animation at right, molecules are complex objects; they are a population of atoms and thermal agitation can strain their internal chemical bonds in three different ways: via rotation, bond length, and bond angle movements; these are all types of internal degrees of freedom.

tl;dr Water be jiggly. Amount of jiggle is hard to put a number on

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It would still be possible to answer the speed question, you just get different answers for different substances (and even phases of the same substance) at the same temperature.

Since something like water does have those additional ways to store energy, my guess is it would be slower at room temp than another liquid with less complex molecules that have about the same mass each. (If there is such a thing)

Also I expect different answers for each of mean, median, and mode speeds.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So if I were jiggling, I think I could come up with a speed. I’d figure out how far I'm moving, and how long it takes me to move. So I could measure from far left to far right of the jiggle (let’s say 18in.) and then how far to go from far left to far right and return to the original position. If that’s 2 seconds, then that’s 1½ feet per 2 seconds which can be converted to any other speed such as km/hr.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

let’s say 18in.

Show off. 😠

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’m rather jiggly.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Here's an experiment that you could try at home:

Takes 2 cups of water of equal volume, one hot and one cold. Put a single drop of food coloring into each cup and time how long it takes for the color to fully disperse throughout the water.

Record your units in SI units like cm or mm, because inches are stupid and scientists have agreed to not like them. You are a scientist now, so you must join the club.

Submit your findings to the journal of Lemmy for peer review. Extrapolate into other forms of measurement if you want.

If you want it to be even better, measure 3 temperatures (in °C, mind you): room temp, hot, and cold. Then you can plot them on a curve of distance vs time.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Id like to see her in a speedo meter

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[-] AppleMango@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, speedometers are also speedometers for atoms

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
[-] The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Jolene! Jolene! Dont you steal my ham. ..it hasnt been temperature tested, mam!

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