2022/02/10

Measure, and Number, and Weight II

So I think zled units will be generic terms, instead of untranslated words. (If that bothers you, go look up what "meter" means.) Since they're based on multiples of 12 and various powers of 10 of the Planck units, they can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths, and twelfths and still be even numbers of the base units.

For length, thought I'd just call the 6.350 centimeter, 1.2 billion Bohr-radius unit a "stretch" (and volume just be "cubic stretches"). Their mass unit, 120 million Planck masses or 2.6117 kilos, will just be a "ladings". And their time unit, unlike the others not based on a natural unit, will be…hmm. "Periods" seems most obvious for the hour-analogue, actually the equivalent instead of a Chinese double-hour because it's 1/12th of a Lhãsai day. Then "subperiods" for 1/120th of that, and "subsubperiod" for 1/120th of that, 1/14,400th of the period, and 1/172,800th of the day. Which makes it roughly half a second, ignoring the difference in length between Lhãsai's day and Earth's.

Let's see, then. What if we express speeds in, instead of meters per second, stretches per subsubperiod? Which comes to about 1/8th of a meter per second. Which in turn comes to about a quarter of a meter per second per second, because you apply the difference of time units squared. And imparting such an acceleration to a weight of one lading results in a "force" of 0.618863217 newtons. Then if we move that force over one stretch we get an "energy" of about 0.0393 joules (or about 245,277,675.123 GeV, i.e. 245.278 PeV, or about a quarter of a EeV—there are some surprisingly small units out there in science-land). And then that is equivalent to a "power" of 0.0759131869 watts, sustained for one subsubperiod.

Hmm. Maybe just call them "units (length, volume, mass, time, acceleration, force, energy, power)"? Or, given how Zbin-Ãld works, "long unit" and "heavy unit", and then "period, subperiod, subsubperiod"? Yeah I like that. Then the derived units, though, are "units of (acceleration, force, energy, power)"? Area and volume of course being "square/cubed long units", of course.

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