Timeline for The origin of the natural base in statistical mechanics
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 3:43 | history | edited | John Baez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
people say "base" of a logarithm, not "basis"
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 17:39 | vote | accept | Aidan Rocke | ||
| Feb 23, 2022 at 12:08 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | indeed, instead of redefining Boltzmann's constant we could redefine the unit of temperature; Kelvin and Celsius would then no longer be related by a simple shift of the zero-point; | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 12:01 | comment | added | Aidan Rocke | This is a great point. A related insight that occurred to me is that the notion that the base is arbitrary presumes that Boltzmann's constant is arbitrary. However, the fundamental constants aren't defined independently of each other and they define the epistemic limits of modern theoretical physics. Perhaps a metrologist could present a theoretical justification along these lines. | |
| Feb 23, 2022 at 11:46 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 66 characters in body
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| Feb 23, 2022 at 11:41 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |