All my life, all through school, i have been told that the Metric System is much more scientific. Still, although, in America, i could use either system, i almost always use the English System. The units of the English system are based on the human body, and so, the units work well for things like furniture and houses. There is also not as useful a measurement as the thousandth for machining. Further metric threads SUCK!
But, this blog is about how unscientific the metric system is, not how i find it lacking for actually using.
The metric system is unscientific in two ways:
- The meter is based on the speed of light, which the scientists stop measuring, and just set, because it wasn't supposed to be changing.
- The universe is base 12.
The meter is supposed to be based on scientific measurement!
The meter was originally designed to be such that 10,000 km was the distance between the equator and the pole. But, the originator did the math some math wrong, and so, well, it is not a nice, even number.
Later, the scientists thought they were big smart to set the meter based on a certain wavelength of light, which is inverse to the speed of light.
Unfortunately, the speed of light kept changing over time. And this was unsettling, because Einstein "proved" that the speed of light is a constant in all frames. So, they got together and set the speed of light. (and stopped measuring it, except as an exhibition event)
So, the meter is supposed to be scientifically set… well, i guess it is, if you take that to mean that scientists "set" the speed of light.
The universe is base 12
There are soooooo many 12s when we examine the universe.
Things like 12 notes per octave. 12 signs of the zodiac. 12 months of the year…
The number 12 shows up all over the Bible.
It is really everywhere, when you start looking.
The number 10, not so much. It really only comes about because we have 10 appendages to our hands. 8 fingers and 2 thumbs.
We will find, that when we lay out the numbers we get from scientific experiments, in base 12, that patterns emerge. Numbers that are weird, suddenly makes sense.
It is like 144, 156, 168. Only 144 is really recognizable because it is a dozen dozen, or a 1 gross. The next numbers are 13 dozen and 14 dozen.
12 is also a great number for working with. It divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6. 10 only divides by 2 or 5 It is so easy to divide one foot (twelve inches) into thirds, or quarters. You can't do such with metric.
A standard measurement that most do not know about yet
Vera Rubins discovered that galaxies spin as if all the stars were glued to a plate. The center stars do not spin faster, and the outer stars do not spin slower. All stars move at the same rotational velocity.
This means, to every being in our galaxy, the "rev" is a constant. (rev short for revolution. Or once around the galaxy)
And so, since a "year" is very dependent on what planet you are on, the intelligent inhabitants of our galaxy all use revs to talk about time. Revs and parts of revs.
Things like Yugas and the Mayan calendar's great cycle are both in revs. It makes all the astrological events so much easier to work with when we change to revs. And in so doing, so many cycles that we only guess at, or intuit, sudden are shown to be quite well defined.
So the "most scientific" measuring system is not very scientific. (Nor is it very useful. A cm is too small for any real world stuff, like furniture. And a mm is too big for any actual fine work, like joinery.)
And when we start putting all the 12s together, and realize that we really have something here, we will change our number system from decimal to duodecimal.
We will probably also change our measurement system to units that are human meaningful, and useful. At least one can hope.