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Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It’s the definition of arbitrary. There’s no reason to pick those specific things to base your system on. They picked them because they’re easy to measure and have a reasonably consistent value over time. Then they divide it by some number that makes it useful on a human scale. There’s nothing fundamental that lead to those values being chosen. They were just useful. Nature doesn’t work on meters. It does work on the speed of light. It is a fundamental unit of nature (excluding the unit of time, which is obviously not fundamental, but we could use any measure of time).

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MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

There’s no reason to pick those specific things to base your system on.

If you’re not a human, and not living on earth, and are unconcerned with the day to day activities of humans as they go about their lives on earth, I tend to agree.

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- Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Most people on earth don’t care much about Paris. If you ask 1000 people on earth to do this measurement you’d probably get 1000 different answers. Picking the line that goes through Paris is just a random choice that got enough agreement.
  
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  - MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Most people on earth don’t care much about Paris. If you ask 1000 people on earth to do this measurement you’d probably get 1000 different answers. Picking the line that goes through Paris is just a random choice that got enough agreement.
    
    It must be so exhilarating for you, asserting your opinions on weights and measures.
    
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