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Comment by lupire

1 year ago

A more natural way to say it is that equality requires that the unit of length is the length of an arbitrary pendulum and the unit of time is the half-period of the same pendulum.

The pendulum is a device that relates pi to gravity.

Sounds universal. Get a different value on the Moon? Of course... pi squares differently on the moon :)

  • The arbitrary length pendulum with a period of 2 seconds which is your unit of length, (or 1 Catholic meter) is much shorter on the moon. In local Catholic meters gravity would be pi squared Catholic meters / second. As it would on any planet.

    • I think I understand. Distance scales with Planet Size? That actually makes a lot of sense.