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work_a5er4rmmxjdfbbvnfgk3rxfiqa	Bradford Skow	Does Temperature Have a Metric Structure?*	2011	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8354	596	66	If there are such functions then there is some natural metric structure on temperature values—a function on temperature values represented by one of the functions on numbers f or g defined above lets us speak of the "distance" between two a metric structure comes from the role the Kelvin scale plays in that theory. for measuring temperature were set up is very different from the way the scale for numbers assigned to temperature values on the Kelvin scale shall have the following All this scale presupposes about the metric structure of any quantity, then, is that there are scaleindependent facts about ratios of energies. scientists who believed that temperature had a metric structure set up scales for number any temperature value is assigned on such a scale. We need to look at what the laws of thermodynamics presuppose about the structure of temperature. law that does not presuppose that temperature has a metric structure (like the Kelvin	./cache/work_a5er4rmmxjdfbbvnfgk3rxfiqa.pdf	./txt/work_a5er4rmmxjdfbbvnfgk3rxfiqa.txt