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Personally I vote for a new unity as a measure of time, the 10+e7 part of the speed of light, so the equivalent to 2.99792458 seconds, it's a sensible default i
by mattigames 4y ago
Personally I vote for a new unity as a measure of time, the 10+e7 part of the speed of light, so the equivalent to 2.99792458 seconds, it's a sensible default in my opinion, perhaps also another new unity that is the third of that one, it would be very close to a second (in case the space travelers have practical applications to have such measure of time)
- jessaustin 4y agoHow does this work? To get duration from speed, you also need to designate a distance, don't you? What is special about 898,755 km?
- saalweachter 4y agoAt this point I'll note the watering hole frequency is about 20 cm, giving a conveniently big distance unit without additional parameters. If other, alien species aren't using it already, they'll be jealous enough to switch.
- db48x 4y agoOr we could just redefine c to be 300,000m/s.
- dr_dshiv 4y ago10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute. With that division, seconds would be 0.84 the length of current seconds. But, one second is exactly 10 alpha cycles in the brain (10 hz), which is the most dominant electrical cycle. So, maybe seconds are biologically sensible. In that case, we need to build a system that connects the rhythms of our biology to the rhythms of our planetary motion. Oh…