The Metric system is touted as being scientific.
It is so easy, because it is base 10.
Unfortunately, its only good point, being base 10 to match our current number system, is also what makes it VERY unscientific.
The Metric system is horrible for human sized measurements. Wood working, machining, house design, they are all worse in Metric.
The Metric system is supposed to be based on scientific constants, but we will find that they failed, and then just made it up. And swept it all under the rug. It is scientific in name only.
The Metric system will be dropped by the science community as it will be found to be truly unusable for scientific measurements. I don't know what will happen in the general populous. I hope they choose a better system for human sized measurements.
The beginning of the Metre
The metre was originally set to be 1 / 10,000,000 of the distance from the north pole to the equator, running through Paris.
(It is easy to calculate latitude, all you need to know is the day of the year. Even knowing the month, one can make a quite accurate latitude measurement. But measuring longitude requires accurate clocks, or observation over at least a year. This is why they set out to measure a portion of the latitude, distance from equator to pole.)
And surveyors set out to measure the distance by triangulation. Unfortunately they made some errors in the math after taking all the measurements which led to the metre not being as accurate as it should 40,007.863 km instead of 40,000 km around the earth. (the guy who set out to do the measurements knew of the error, but didn't want to upset the apple cart, just after the metre was adopted)
More advanced measurement failure
Later the meter was defined as the wave length of a certain spectrum of light. Or, based on the speed of light.
Unfortunately, the speed of light kept changing. And the speed of light was supposed to be fixed (Einstein said so), so the metreologists got together and "fixed" the speed of light.
So, the meter was supposed be defined by universal measurements, but instead, is just based on a group of "scientists" who got together, and pulled the number out of their asses.
The Universe is Base 12
All of those little failures can be overlooked, but the thing that will kill the Metric system is that the universe is base 12.
- There are 12 musical notes per octave.
- There are 12 hours in each day (and 12 each night)
- There are 12 zodiac signs
- There were 12 apostles
- There are 12 inches in a foot (the width of your thumb compared to the length of your foot)
Everywhere in the universe, you see things in 12, 6, 4 & 3.
You really don't see any 5s in nature. (except in the Fibonacci sequence, which is a combination of 2 + 3)
I know these bits of evidence really don't seem like much, but it will become more and more apparent to scientists, that everything is in base 12. (there are lots of evidence when you start looking at maths, but those would take a whole blog to explain each one. So, i will just state it as a fact that we will see clearly in the future.)
Think of the world as a honeycomb. If you were working with man in this structure, you would use 6 (or 12), you would not use 5.
Or, like counting eggs. Eggs come in dozens, and counting them in base 10 becomes tedious and you don't see the patterns line up. Like, can you see that 132 is at the boundary between one dozen, and the next? It is so much easier to see when it is stated as 11.0 dozen
Yes, this means a 12 number system
When we count, we will be used 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, 10
There is still all kinds of arguments of what symbol and what name to use for A & B. But, it will be settled, and then everyone will learn and use these. We will all be talking about honey comb structures, and will need these words.
When i said above, that science will discover everything is Base 12, we will find that thing after thing all aligns in this new (old) numbering system.
The metric system is horrible for building human sized things.
So, in doing wood working, a millimeter is way too big. If you are off by a mm, your project will look like shit.
And, centimeters are way too small. You need 100s of them to make any furniture.
As opposed to english system where inches are a great unit for measuring furniture. Many things are single digit, and most things are two digits. Rarely 3 (so it is easier on our minds to remember those numbers)
Further in machining, 1/1000 of an inch is very good for accuracy of machining. Whereas, there is nothing as useful in metric.
Thus, the Metric system is the worst (for humans) and is completely unscientific.
I will be happy when it is gone. Unfortunately, it may not be so in my lifetime.