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Why is BC bad because this event touches all cultures? Every part of science and academia is effected by the culture doing the research, and is almost its own f
by Thorentis 7y ago
Why is BC bad because this event touches all cultures? Every part of science and academia is effected by the culture doing the research, and is almost its own fascinating historical record in itself. Trying to make everything as generic as possible is bland and boring.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoThe reason BC is bad is because, when you hear BC, you think, oh this has been calibrated by knowledge of the passage of time according to records by humans. So perhaps we know it happened in year 20 of the reign of King B, and we have enough other information to believe that means about 125 BC. But the date of this event was determined by radioactive calibration. It's not measuring the same thing. It measures something that approximates human years. This might seem like a trivial distinction to lay people, but it's relevant to the field, and the 4.2 k BP year event is a technical term.
- thih9 7y ago> Trying to make everything as generic as possible is bland and boring. This is subjective. On the other hand going with a generic choice helps create a well defined universal language. This makes scientific cooperation across cultures easier. Sample difficulties of going with culture-specific naming: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_a...