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I mean, we could be measuring time in radians. We already subdivide degrees into minutes and seconds, might as well call the day 2 pi radians. We sleep for 2/

I mean, we could be measuring time in radians. We already subdivide degrees into minutes and seconds, might as well call the day 2 pi radians. We sleep for 2/3 pi radians of the day in that case.

red_trumpet 3y ago
The whole argument started when somebody above claimed that we probably do not sleep exactly 8 hours, but some weird irrational number. That problem persists even if you measure in radians...
- Rayhem 3y ago
  Do the physicist thing and just define all your constants to be one. "How long is a day? 1 day." "I slept for .37 days." This nicely unifies things with the tao manifesto[1] people since 1 day = 1 turn = 1 tau = 2 * pi radians and reinforces the periodic nature of these things. [1]: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
  - PawgerZ 3y ago
    Yes, but in reality, you slept .37827387654329617345987613475130465019873458612386459012374587203475. . . days
    - saalweachter 3y ago
      Doesn't that depend on whether time is quantized?
      - PawgerZ 3y ago
        Yes, but with no viable theories of a minimal unit, I'll assume that no such thing exists until given proof otherwise.