A Correction
HA! and you thought all we did was ride!!! NOT, sometimes we have very meaningful discussions... like the one this past week!!!! The guy in the pic didn't actually show up to ride... but, his legacy was there as the engineers in the group corrected my "mis-nomer" of when molecular motion stopped... it's absolute zero which is around -273 C.... and absolute zero is zero Kelvin.... so, to set the record straight.. here's something from Wikipedia.
The kelvin (symbol: K) is a unit increment of temperature and is one of the seven SI base units. The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale where absolute zero, the theoretical absence of all thermal energy, is zero (0 K). The Kelvin scale and the kelvin are named after the Irish physicist and engineer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), who wrote of the need for an “absolute thermometric scale”.
1848: Lord Kelvin (William Thomson), wrote in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale, of the need for a scale whereby “infinite cold” (absolute zero) was the scale’s null point, and which used the degree Celsius for its unit increment. Thomson calculated that absolute zero was equivalent to −273 °C on the air thermometers of the time.[7] This absolute scale is known today as the Kelvin thermodynamic temperature scale. It’s noteworthy that Thomson’s value of “−273” was actually derived from 0.00366, which was the accepted expansion coefficient of gas per degree Celsius relative to the ice point. The inverse of −0.00366 expressed to five significant digits is −273.22 °C which is remarkably close to the true value of −273.15 °C.
So, thanks to those riders "in the know"... who set the record straight... and thanks to Mother Nature for sending us great riding weather!!!!
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