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barbazoo a day ago

Would have been odd if it had magically matched the arbitrary distances we use in the metric system. It's not that 1m is in any way a "natural" distance that was chosen for anything but practical reasons.

dcrazy a day ago | parent | next [-]

I was expecting some spectacular revelation that the definition of the second, the period of a Cesium atom, and the speed of light were somehow related to the definition of a meter by a factor of 0.21.

timewizard a day ago | parent | prev [-]

If our system was based on Planck units then it would be interesting. It would also cause tons of other fundamental constants to be greatly simplified to either integers or integer multiples of known transcendental constants.