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I'm not a scientist, it was just easier once I got used to it. Also I don't like heat and in Kelvin my main argument in support of this (what should be entirely a personal matter of taste but it's fun to argue about matters of personal taste like which is the best movie) is more obvious than in a system like Celsius with an arbitrary zero.

The coldest it is possible for anything to be is 0K. That is indeed too cold, but only about 280K less than the inside of my refrigerator or a glass of Coke. You can wear gloves to (carefully) handle something at almost zero and colder is not possible.

On the other hand things get way hotter, there is an essentially unlimited amount too hot that things might be. Boiling water is too hot (not even 400K), a pizza oven is even hotter (700K plus for a good one) but lava is much hotter than that, yet lava is a naturally occurring substance, it's just right there in our environment whereas there's no chance of stumbling onto anything at 0K.



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