: Well, in my system, there are actually two discreet
: systems; Earthtime and Realtime. Earthtime has the
: same seconds, minutes, hours, and days that we use
: right now, and distance is measured in light-intervals
: (ie, light-minutes, light-hours, light-days, etc) -
: obviously we would be working in small fractions of
: light-intervals (ie, I had to walk seven NLS'
: [nano-light-seconds] to school in the snow, butt
: naked, up hill, both ways!). The calender is based
: around the Earth's orbit around the sun (still 365-366
: days a year), but has the months and weeks rearranged
: to make a little more sense (no more "30 days has
: september, april, june, and november, all the rest
: have peanut butter except grandma, 'cause she rides a
: tricycle", but "30 days have each month,
: divided into five six-day weeks of four work days and
: two holidays, plus four tri-monthly extra holidays,
: annual-transition day between Monober and Decidoceber,
: and leap day between Sextaber and Septober every four
: years except every hundred years except every
: four-hundred years").
Aaahh, who cares about Earthtime? When we can use our coherent plasma spaceflares to light up the sky any time we want, and our thermal ionic spaceheaters to raise or lower the temperature of the entire Earth by a hundred degrees (y'know, this is the 21st century I'm talking about), night and day and summer and winter just aren't too important.
: Anyway, Realtime is based on the only absolutes - the
: Plank-length (man, Plank had the most appropriate
: name), and light. All distances are expressed as
: multiples of the Plank-length, time is measured in
: Planks as well (with one Plank-instant being the time
: it takes light to traverse a Plank-length), and all
: types of mass, charge, and energy are measured as
: distortions (in Planks) in spacetime.
Set lightspeed and Planck's (notice the "c") constant to 1 for "natural notation." Distance and time are expressed in a single unit; mass, momentum and energy are expressed in the reciprocal of that unit; speed is dimensionless. Can't get much simpler than that. And sure, we'll let the unit be the Planck length, ::pats Forrests' head kindly, before signalling the men in the white coats::
--SiliconDream
