Show COME THE REPliES ON COLD Many More Answers Are Received tc it t the Puzzling Question Which Is Submitted t tWIDE WIDE VARIANCE IS SHOWN CONTEST REMAINS OPEN TO ALU WHO WISH CHANCE How cold must it be to be lie twice twi as cold as 2 degrees Fahrenheit above zero The Tha time for closing closi The Heralds weather contest is drawing near nar Get Oct in your solution at once Try for that 25 Another deluge of answers was re ra received received yesterday by the weather we ther editor These have been bean marked and filed rIled They will be turned over ovar to the three local scientists who will wUl act as judges The judges alone will decide which answer is correct The Herald expresses no opinion on the answers received Few Pew answers are alike There are plenty lenty P of figures left between the two extreme figures submitted 1 degree above and below Is your estimate different Send it in Does It correspond with one already sub submitted mUted Send it in with your reasons for arriving at your conclusion Write plainly and briefly on one side of the paper p per and address communication cation to the weather editor Dont ask the weather bureau men They will not tell teJI you Another Bunch of Replies Following F is another installment of ot ret re replies plies received The Weather Editor of ot Herald My answer to your question Que tion In Herald is as follows Twice ThIce as cold c as 3 2 3 degrees d grees zero would be 2 I degrees below zero H IL A TUCKETT Rear East ERSt First South Street Herald I hereby submit an answer to your ques question question tion of Feb 4 How cold would it be were it twice as cold as 2 degrees above zero My ry answer is that it would be 2286 degrees below zero derived as S fol follows follows follows lows Temperature is a measure of ot heat not of o cold Cold is a condition that re results results suits from the absence of heat and can cannot cannot cannot not be bo measured Therefore without changing the th meaning of the tho above ques question question question tion it could be stated thus What tem tern temperature temperature Is as hot as 2 degrees above zero zoco Fahrenheit will ill be used as the accepted scale Thus as 32 22 degrees F degrees absolute from gas laws l ws 2 degrees dErees F degrees OO 0 degrees degrees absolute and a temperature as great as 2 degrees es F 2 2306 degrees absolute and 2306 2 U degrees absolute degrees 32 degrees 2306 2286 degrees F The answer is s 2286 IG de degrees degrees degrees grees below zero on the Fahrenheit scale s le Yours truly W R H TRAVERS E M MCl Chief Cl et Engineers Office O 0 S L R H R It News Building Salt Lake Loke City To The Herald One degree decree d ree above Is half as warm as ts 2 above Therefore 1 degroo above is twice as cold as 2 Z degrees degres d gr es above 13 l Editor Herald I submit the following in answer to the temperature problem Cold is a relative term and heat in terms of which we must render It is reckoned from absolute 0 G or below the zero In common use degrees degree F temperature given degrees s F absolute scale 9 1626 degrees ordinary scale This of ot course ourse is a degrees F Respectfully submitted d dFRED FRED S CURTIS 79 South Twelfth East Bast Editor Herald nI nl answer to your question How cold must it be to be twice as cold as 2 de degrees degrees degreen grees green above zero I desire to submit the following answer 73 degrees below zero I take 77 17 degrees above zero as the normal temperature t because according to the United States pharmacopoeia of 1900 this is the standard temperature for forthe forthe forthe the solubility of substances in liquids for taking specific gravity and for volumetric operations Respectfully PAUL PALL J SCHREINER First Class hospital Corps U US US US S A Weather Editor Salt Lake Herald In answer to the puzzle In Sundays Sunday a Herald How cold must it be to be 00 twice as cold as 2 degrees above zero Answer Sixty 90 60 s below zero MRS A CUPIT HURLBUT Park City Utah Weather Editor Herald By B p twice as IS cold coid I assume is meant m mas uin as would be commonly understood un with without Without without out any scientific play on words sambas mas we would say twice as big or twice as a along long Hence twice as cold as 2 degrees above zero would equal 25 degrees below zero i e fr point is 32 above aboy zero 2 degrees above zero would be 30 degrees degree of frost double tIt or twice that would be 60 ro degrees of frost equal canal equalS IS degrees be below below below low zero Very truly yours MRS M L E El KINGSFORD Box 13 Weather Editor Herald My M answer to your puzzler in hi The Her Herald Herald ald aid is 28 degrees below zero Very V ry res respectfully respectfully J H PER tY Mercur Utah Weather Editor Sart Lake Herald Conjecturing the point which your com corn committee committee may figure from and taking fumes from the Yam Yampa pa smelter which we have been contending with for the last ten days as an n actual basis bams makes your weather problem register rister 1914 degrees be below below below low zero Very V ory truly G 0 M IL WYNE Bingham Canyon Weather Editor Salt Lake Herald Taking 32 3 degrees as a 8 basis b to work from 2 degrees is 18 10 degrees below freez frees freezing freezing ing end nd in order to be twice as cold as 30 degrees below It must be 60 de degrees degrees degrees grees below freezing or 28 degrees degree below balo zero zer Respectfully MRS L P JONES JO tJ S IS 16 1 K Street Weather Editor Herald Now to say 35 that 70 m degrees above zero ia i normal temperature t and as it grows colder the thermometer sinks a degree at ata a time Now if the thermometer sinks sink to 2 degrees above zero and as it ws colder older it would continue if cf the thermometer sinks Inks to t 2 degrees above zero and continued to sink it would as cold when It reached 66 degrees below zero ro EDWARD ED RD sW W Weather Editor EdItor Harold Jd io After reading the v answers anaw f t to your Tw e as Cold query queri I i solution will find few f w followers but If i I Continued Conti n on Page 2 STILL COME THE REPLIES ON COLD Continued from Page 1 amiot annot be right I can at lOit laa t be h original 1 r hold that there th re is no limit t to eiter icat or cold and for that reason it t is to find a point between 2 de grees above zero and Wd the thc utmost t limit of ot that would be exactly twIce as as a cold and find therefore the question gu ti n is unanswerable able ahle However anyone who vho works in a SIt Lake Loke steam heated office these f f mornings can give a practical 11 II of a 0 men twice as cold as 2 degrees above zero Respectfully ICICLE |