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- Please check out my paper, we just found a new superconductor, it has a critical temperature of 127 degrees.

- Look, I'm a bit busy right now

- Celsius

I re-read 127 celsius multiple times to try and make sure I understood that (260 Fahrenheit). This is a nice extra bonus, not only does this work at "room temperature", it works in death valley.

At 127 celsius, you have a lot of margin even over the hottest temperatures on earth (which appear to be mostly recognized as 56.7 °C) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o....

I don't understand, I assume it's a dialogue? What is the meaning of the punchline being Celsius? Does the first sentence intend to include "room-temperature"?

The joke is, the second person heard 127 degrees, assumed that was Kelvin, and dismissed it as unimpressive. Then they realized it was 127 degrees Celsius, which is MUCH more impressive.

The punchline is the temperature was originally presumed to be Kelvin.

Though a _real_ stickler of a scientist knows that K is not given in degrees and would have lightly chastised if making that assumption.

I still enjoyed the joke though.

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