The Kelvin scale of temperature is the generally used in science, particularly in the physical sciences. The Celsius scale is still used a in many areas of physical science, but the Kelvin that is the ...

The Kelvin (K), named after British physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), is the thermodynamic temperature unit in the International System of Units (SI). It is derived from the third law of ...

IN NATURE of July 19 a review entitled “Discursive Meteorology”, meaning as I think ‘discursive physics’, asks a question to which I ought if possible to find an answer. The reviewer writes: “Some of ...

IN a recent communication 1 Groves and Lielmezs express the absolute temperature scale in a form symmetrical about the arbitrary zero, with the absolutely highest and lowest temperatures placed at + ∞ ...

Science is full of zeroes. Light has zero mass. Neutrons have zero charge. A mathematical point has zero length. Those zeroes might be unfamiliar, but they follow a consistent logic. All represent the ...