So, there I was, just minding my own Ps and Qs, when a thought came along and ripped my brains out! Why shouldn't time be metric? Any sub devision of a second is metric, but anything larger than a second, we only bother counting up to 60. Why? When? Who? - Awful!
This is how things SHOULD be:
100 seconds (or micro minutes) to the minute;
100 minutes (or micro hours) to the hour;
100 hours (or hours) to the day;
100 days (or micro weeks) to the week;
100 weeks (or micro months) to the month;
100 months (or micro years) to the year.
There should probably be 100 seasons a year too, and they should all be different, just to avoid any muddlement.
I've started putting my thinking into action - I've collected all the hours and weeks I could find and have begun chopping them up into fractions of ten, yer na? I won't lie to you - I'm very confused. But despite my mental cognitions being clogged up with spack, I feel confident I can get the job done.
My next task is to slow down, or speed up, or muck about with the earth's orbit of the sun. Ideally, I would like to send the earth in a kind of figure of eight orbit around both the sun and saturn. I've worked out (using science) that it would take the earth (using movement) exactly 100 micro years to complete this crazy orbit, provided that it is travelling at precisely the right speed. I have proved (using models) that if me and ten of my chums (using gloves) each take a sturdy grip on a tree, our combined and measured efforts should be able to throw the earth off, through space, towards saturn. And Lo, the new measurement of time will commence.
Dunno how to make 100 seasons though...might not bother.
This is how things SHOULD be:
100 seconds (or micro minutes) to the minute;
100 minutes (or micro hours) to the hour;
100 hours (or hours) to the day;
100 days (or micro weeks) to the week;
100 weeks (or micro months) to the month;
100 months (or micro years) to the year.
There should probably be 100 seasons a year too, and they should all be different, just to avoid any muddlement.
I've started putting my thinking into action - I've collected all the hours and weeks I could find and have begun chopping them up into fractions of ten, yer na? I won't lie to you - I'm very confused. But despite my mental cognitions being clogged up with spack, I feel confident I can get the job done.
My next task is to slow down, or speed up, or muck about with the earth's orbit of the sun. Ideally, I would like to send the earth in a kind of figure of eight orbit around both the sun and saturn. I've worked out (using science) that it would take the earth (using movement) exactly 100 micro years to complete this crazy orbit, provided that it is travelling at precisely the right speed. I have proved (using models) that if me and ten of my chums (using gloves) each take a sturdy grip on a tree, our combined and measured efforts should be able to throw the earth off, through space, towards saturn. And Lo, the new measurement of time will commence.
Dunno how to make 100 seasons though...might not bother.