The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-10
cold CONTEST"
IS NOW CLOSED
Eminent Judges Have Been Secured
and Decision VIII Be in Sun
days Herald.
NUMBER OF ANSWERS 27O
REPLIES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
FROM FIVE STATES.

HOM FIVE Oh Al Eos
If YOU wish to know the correct an
swer to the question, chow cold rnuss
it he to be twice as cold as two de-
grees above zero (Fahrenheit), read
The Sunday Herald tomorrow.
The contest closed at midnight last
night. In all 270 answers were re-
ceived. An effort will be made to COM
plete their publication by the time the
decision is announced
Three of the most eminent scientists
and educators in Utah have consented
to act as judges. The question has
been submitted to them. They have
promised to give their answer today,
in time for publication in The Sunday
Herald tomorrow. The person who
sent in the first correct answer VIII
receive IS.
An effort has been made to secure as
judges three men Of such high stand
ing that their decision will be accepted
without question. The Herald believes
ii has succeeded. For the protection
of the judges themselves from the an
noyance of questions, however, their
names will not be given out until the
time their decision is announced
No question propounded in this part
of the country has ever aroused such
widespread attention as has this query
put by The Herald. Answers have
been received from Nevada, Idaho and
Wyoming. The replies have varied
more than might have been believed
possible at the outset.
Another installment is printed be-
low:
T7-In order that it may be twice as
cold as 2 degrees above zero, I would
suggest that the thermometer should reg
iSter zero. Respectfully,
17S-AIy answer is that the Thermometers
would be just at zero. Yours truly.
MRS c. Z, MEI1D. Box 3D7.
I79-To be as cold again as degrees
above zero would be 1 degree above zero.
Do be twice as cold as degrees above
zero would be zero.
1sO-After reading some Of the answers
to the weather problem now running in
The Herald, / must say that many Of
the conclusions arrived at by your read
erS are perhaps more ludicrOus than un-
reasonable. However, I am prompted by
solution of the question. How cold is it
when it is twice as cold as , degrees above
zero?' Answer-Four degrees below
zero. q. G. BOWEN,
50 Commercial Block.
1S1-The real zero point Of temperature,
mat IS IndL point dL WHICH the uOlSCuleS
have lost all motion, the energy of
which represents itself as heat, is sup
posed to be, and in all probability is. over
$50 degrees + below the zero Of the
Fahrenreit thermometer. Therefore, the
solution Of your example, from my point
Of view, would be: $50 degrees plus ,
degrees equals 49, degrees; divided by 2,
equals % degrees below Fahrenheit zero.
JAMES 3. MARSHALL
Chief Engineer Utah Ice &c Storage Co.
"
1S2-Assuming that in your question of
how cold it would be if it were twice
as cold as 2 above zero, to be based on
Fahrenheit zero, the solution, from my
point of view, would be as follows; Alb
solute zero is 40 degrees below Fahren-
heit, SO that above would be 462 degrees
above absolute zero Half this is 81 de
Srees above absolute zero, or - degrees
below zero, Fahrenheit, which would b6
half as warm, or twice as cold as de-
grees above zero F., since cold is simply
the absence Of heat. r .. STARK
Utah Ice & Storage Co.
1851 will say the answer to your
weather problem is f degrees below zero.
EARL MCLESERY,
762 East Fourth South
1S+-In answer to your puzzle in Mon
days Herald, I will say it can't be any
colder than twice as cold above zero
Therefore, my answer is 2 degrees abovs