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If you were emperor of the world, I would implore you to finance a multibillion dollar project to measure the gravitational constant to higher percision so that
by shpx 7y ago
If you were emperor of the world, I would implore you to finance a multibillion dollar project to measure the gravitational constant to higher percision so that we could move to units that actually make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
- kragen 7y agoShpx, gung'f n shpxvat terng vqrn.
- cies 7y agoCame here to mention the Planck units, aka God's units :) Sadly they are a little outside of the human realm of experience, both in their single units (waaay to small usually) and in the units that the list contains (speed, electrical charge, etc; where we like "introductory" units such as length, time, weight)
- skykooler 7y agoWith the exception of the Planck mass, which ends up being about that of a gnat.
- shpx 7y agoThe units aren't "waaay too small", it's the humans that are big. Realistically, we might also have shorthands for a convenient order of magnitude for each of the units http://www.ihst.ru/personal/tomilin/papers/tomil.pdf http://www.ihst.ru/personal/tomilin/papers/tomil.pdf but these types of decisions should probably be left for whenever people can economically measure the constants with enough precision to be serious about switching.