The SI system is also based on the length of body parts though
The second is the length of a single heartbeat. During one heartbeat, the heart muscle consumes 1 J of energy, which makes 1 J per second, roughly, which is 1 W.
Also the 1 m is the length of the spinal chord. Some might not get the significance of the spinal cord and that’s fine but it’s the central canal in the body so there’s that. Edit: yeah yeah i get it it’s not the “official origin”. However i remember reading a paper where they discussed that the meter should be the length of the spine, but they didn’t outright wanna say it, so they searched for a natural circumstances that just so happened to approximate that.
Also i believe that 1 kg is what you can comfortably carry. Or about the amount of food (cereals) that a worker gets paid for a day of field work. Compare to japanese Masu.
I’m honestly astounded by the amount of misinformation in this comment.
Second derives from sexagesimal measurements of day and night cycles. Metre derives from early Earth measurements. One gram is the weight of one cubic centimeter of water.
The SI system is also based on the length of body parts though
The second is the length of a single heartbeat. During one heartbeat, the heart muscle consumes 1 J of energy, which makes 1 J per second, roughly, which is 1 W.
Also the 1 m is the length of the spinal chord. Some might not get the significance of the spinal cord and that’s fine but it’s the central canal in the body so there’s that. Edit: yeah yeah i get it it’s not the “official origin”. However i remember reading a paper where they discussed that the meter should be the length of the spine, but they didn’t outright wanna say it, so they searched for a natural circumstances that just so happened to approximate that.
Also i believe that 1 kg is what you can comfortably carry. Or about the amount of food (cereals) that a worker gets paid for a day of field work. Compare to japanese Masu.
You do know that people used to be significantly shorter when they came up the meter, right?
I’m honestly astounded by the amount of misinformation in this comment.
Second derives from sexagesimal measurements of day and night cycles. Metre derives from early Earth measurements. One gram is the weight of one cubic centimeter of water.
My heart doesn’t beat 60bpm and I can comfortably carry more than 1kg. Pretty sure My heart isn’t 1W either.