It shall be an ideal situation to consider *Earth as a hypothetical sphere* and define the length unit METRE New(m'). Earth could be considered to be of circumference 40000 km.
For comprehensive details, please refer Shelving Nautical Mile in Favor of Nautical Kilometre; Proceedings of 3rd International Conference MMGT 2001; pp 164 thro 169; National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi; 8 � 10 February 2001.
The Earth has Polar Radius =6356.783 km; Equitorial Radius =6378.136 km
These were the best known values that I could trace. Accordingly, considering the Earth to be a hypothetical sphere of radius 6371 km, the circumference would work to 40030.15926869 km (24873.587796448 miles).
The 360-degree to a circle and 90^o to the �quadrant� are retained. Like �hours & minutes� on the clock face; each degree (in angle) has 100 decimal minutes (and each decimal minute has 100 decimal seconds) unlike the present 1^o x60' x60". Nautical Kilometre, can be defined as: '1/100th of one degree' on earth circumference (1/36000th of the circle). Thus, Nautical Kilometre (using the decimal clock) works to:
1 n Km� =1.11194886884 Km.
Using the known value for the �velocity of light�, mean distance of Earth from the Sun is 1.3445587453 x 10^8 Km�; and the distance METRE, after correction, can be defined as:
�Metre (m') is the distance traversed by light, in vacuum, during the time interval, 1/97059575.22th of the decimal second�. Since �1/100th of one degree� is to be the Nautical Kilometre; length distance METRE can be seen as 1/100000th of the degree.
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From: "Carl Sorenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26060] RE: FW: The Sentinel Online - Archived Story.htm Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:03:03 -0600
I emailed the author of the article:
So you don't care what a kilogram is or if it changes because you do pounds
and ounces? Would you mind telling me just what exactly a pound or an ounce
is? They are both defined in terms of metric units, just like all of the
other colloquial units you defend so ardently. If the kilogram doubled or
disappeared, as you said, so would the pound. All you are really doing when
you use pounds is measuring in multiples of 453.59 grams, and why anyone
would want to do that is beyond me.
"Soft drinks and car engines come in liters, whatever that means..." Wow. Just announce to the world that you have been living under a rock for the past decade.
If you would like to get a slightly more educated perspective on units of measure, read "The Parable of the Light Bulb" at www.aros.net/~cos/parable.htm. It is two pages and includes an explanation of the parable.
By the way, work is underway to redefine the kilogram to make its definition
permanent and unchanging, just like the other units were redefined. The
metric system is actually extremely stable, especially compared to the
colloquial units in common use in the U.S. Did you know that the inch was
changed in 1959, and with it the yard, mile, foot, gallon, pint, cup, quart,
fluid ounce, square mile, acre, etc.?
Carl Sorenson
P.S. The earth's circumference is 40,000 km, not 24854.847689493358784697367374533 miles.
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