Temperatures On the Surface of the Earth

Theorem:

At any time, there exist two points on the surface of the Earth, which have exactly the same temperature.

Proof:

temperatures on the surface of the earth

Let T(x) be the temperature function for a point x on the Globe.

Consider a path p(t) from a "cool" point a on the left side of the Globe, to point b, where T(b) is the maximum temp of the Globe. Consider also a path p'(t) from another "cool" point a' on the other side, to b.

The function T(p(t)), with t describing the path p(t) is continuous and T(a)<T(b) by assumption, therefore there exists some temperature T such that T(a)<T<T(b). Without loss of generality we can pick T such that T>T(a) and T>T(a'). By the IVT, there exists a point c, somewhere along the path p(t), such that T=T(c).

The same argument applies to the other half, if we consider it applied to path p'(t) from a' to b, implying the existence of a point c', such that T=T(c')=T(c). QED.

Now that we've seen that there exist two points, how about infinitely many points? Repeat the argument above (using density), for all points a(t) and a'(t) on both sides of the globe, to get a simple closed curve j(t) of points which have the same temperature at any given moment. This curve would be what physicists call an isothermal curve.