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Topic	Imperial system for height, metric system for everything else
Kamen_Rider_Blade 02/17/24 7:30:37 PM #88:	DarkDoc posted... You can. Use whatever you want. Just don't expect anybody to respect you for it. You're basically the odd one out. If you don't understand what others are saying it's your own fault. Many of us still know how to use Metric, it's not an issue. We just prefer US Customary, since that's what we're used to and will continue to do so. DarkDoc posted... Actually, yes. SI units are based on science. Any alien civilisation capable of interstellar travel will have a great understanding of science. SI wasn't just made up. Things like the speed of light, the Planck constant, the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant and the Avogadro constant are fixed and constant everywhere in the universe. It will make sense to derive your units from those. But what if they don't derive units from them? They have their own form of derivation based off different things? Example, the second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, Cs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s1. What if aliens used a different frequency and a different definition of time? 1 Hz to us might not be the same 1 Hz to them or whatever is equivalent to 1 Hz in their units. --- Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp '*Once Upon A Time in Mexico*' <cite>Kamen_Rider_Blade posted [p:978899288] in Imperial s... [t:80690323]...</cite> <quote>DarkDoc posted... </cite><quote>You can. Use whatever you want. Just don't expect anybody to respect you for it. You're basically the odd one out. If you don't understand what others are saying it's your own fault.</quote>Many of us still know how to use Metric, it's not an issue.We just prefer US Customary, since that's what we're used to and will continue to do so.DarkDoc posted... </cite><quote>Actually, yes. SI units are based on science. Any alien civilisation capable of interstellar travel will have a great understanding of science. SI wasn't just made up. Things like the speed of light, the Planck constant, the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant and the Avogadro constant are fixed and constant everywhere in the universe. It will make sense to derive your units from those.</quote>But what if they don't derive units from them?They have their own form of derivation based off different things?<quote>Example, the second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, Cs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s1.</quote>What if aliens used a different frequency and a different definition of time?1 Hz to us might not be the same 1 Hz to them or whatever is equivalent to 1 Hz in their units. --- Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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