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  • brem@lemmy.worldOPtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•The Metric System
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    Measurement works because it’s accepted on it’s own terms.

    If I were to believe that 1 is 2, it would be very difficult to explain that 2 is indeed double the normal amount of 1.

    The same goes for some alien species that has too many or not enough fingers and doesn’t use prime numbers because of this.

    I don’t personally believe that math is truly universal. But maybe I’m being existential ;)












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    Earth squeezes and stretches and wobbles & rotates. Time as we know it changes in length because it is the common nature of “time” to become chaos which then becomes order. Hylomorphism or Impermanence is to Entropy as measurement is to the fundamentals of size. Who is to say that the distance between two points should be constrained to the barriers of human existence & understanding. All we have is pictures & words, maybe a few trinkets that will become dust that becomes something else that attempts to quantify reality.




  • Trump uses buildings as a system of measurement, having ass-hattedly used the empire state building to measure the horizontal length of the freedom pool, a desecrated monument of freedom which is now more or less a peeling swimming pool in front of the once beloved and now gilded in tacky gold flake/ grifted trophies; “white house”