lifecycle-kit / bio-laws / REFERENCE_TEMPERATURE_K

Variable: REFERENCE_TEMPERATURE_K

const REFERENCE_TEMPERATURE_K: 293.15 = 293.15

The temperature life on Earth is calibrated against, in kelvin.

293.15 K (20 °C) is the reference the metabolic-theory literature normalises to. Any reference would do arithmetically — it only sets where the returned factor equals 1 — but using the literature's keeps the numbers comparable to published rates rather than to a value someone here chose.