Let's Fix Temperature
The design principles are refreshingly simple:
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The design principles are refreshingly simple:
This gives us ten meaningful bands corresponding not to laboratory measurements but to human experience.
Sharp-eyed readers may notice that each step of the Godfrey Scale is exactly 12°F, and 0°G lands on -4°F. Yes, it’s Fahrenheit, plus four, divided by twelve. Fahrenheit had the right idea all along but he used too many digits. As a bonus, 6°G is exactly 68°F, a perfectly respectable American room temperature.
A weather forecast becomes wonderfully concise.
Daventry tomorrow: a high of 6, falling to 4 overnight.
No units required. No conversion charts. No arguments with Americans.
A 6 is comfortable. A 3 means scrape the car. An 8 means complain loudly. Everybody instantly understands.
Scientists will continue using Kelvin and engineers will continue using Celsius. The rest of us can simply ask:
“What’s it like outside?”
And receive the perfectly adequate answer…
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