@farmerman,
offcourse not! I smelled a rat!
I always have to laugh about these questions, because you are looking for a way to ignore what I am writing. So you can keep the status quo.
well, the only important thing is of it is true or not, not if I have -126786821 or +38912801283013801 degrees, toally irrelevant.
And there are lots of physicist who say the same, so that isn't the point.
just start studying , but stay away from educational institues, they are dumbing you down and let you not think freely,