I thought of this word as I was helping my 10 year old complete her math problems. INERTIAaaaaaaa. I was trying to explain to my daughter why THE HECK we are one of only a few countries which use the IMPERIAL system and Fahrenheit?
In fact check the world map out.
Here is a little American History!
In 1975, thanks to President Gerald Ford and Congress, the Metric Conversion Act was passed which would have led to the metric system being the preferred system of weights and measures in the United States. This act created the United States Metric Board, which was abolished in 1982, by President Reagan.Plain and simple its freaking INTERTIA. Don't worry I had to figure out a way to explain this to her as we spent 45 minutes doing her math home work. We won't even get into the fact of forgetting the difference of what a Prime and Composite number is! Here is Inertia and why its frustrating me tonight.
The issue.
There is a huge disconnect between the science that we do (SI units, commonly interchanged with the Metric System) and how we live our daily lives, (U.S. Customary Units, not Imperial Units). Is it possible that people are turned off by science and technology because they don’t understand the metric system? And is it possible that this makes us less scientifically literate as a country?
I think the answer is most definitely. While U.S. scientists are used to converting units, an ideal scientifically literate society includes artists, public servants, business owners, and waitresses — people who don’t have to use the metric system on a regular basis — translating units is one more barrier to understanding the math and science that is used in research.
The only examples that come to my mind where the metric system is in common use in the United States are:
Miles-per-hour/Kilometers-per-hour speedometers in our vehicles
A 750ml bottle of wine
A 1-liter (1,000ml) Nalgene bottle
The 100 meter dash
2 liter soda bottles
5k and 10k runs/races
Most food nutrition labels (How many people actually read those?)
Don't get me started on Fahrenheit as I am packing tonight to visit a British Commonwealth Country. Its always an interesting conversation with my in-laws who live in England and try to remember the formula for Celcius. Its great being on vacation and we always meet wonderful people from other countries and I can't remember the metric system or Celcius formula!
Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius
Converting Fahrenheit temperatures into Celsius temperatures takes three simple steps:
Subtract 32 from the Fahrenheit number.
Divide the answer by 9.
Multiply that answer by 5.
As a formula, the conversion looks like this:
Tc = (5/9)*(Tf-32)
Tc = temperature in Celsius degrees and
Tf = temperature in Fahrenheit degrees
the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has noted Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act in 1975 to get states to convert over to measurements like meters, centimeters, and Celsius. However, it was deemed voluntary and never really was picked up.
“Because the U.S. Congress determined that metric system use would be voluntary, we anticipate the transition process to continue gradually, punctuated by increased use as consumers build familiarity with SI measurements,” NIST Metric Conversion Subject Matter Expert Elizabeth Gentry told Accuweather.com.
Essentially, the reason the United States hasn’t convert to Celsius and the metric system is mostly due to inertia. Americans are used to the hodgepodge of different measurements that draws from both the metric and the imperial system used by the British Empire, so why change?
I am all about individuality but when it can make things more difficult versus compromising to make something even better than we are stopping progress...Below are some Unique names... I think of these names. Do you think these kids will have a fun time trying to explain their name etc. Kind of the same concept with Imperial and Metric! Sorry its my rant as I was helping Peyton with her homework... Hey I do like unusual but dang I think America you are just being stubburn!
I would thing this would be a challenge with these names...Get my point.
Antonym Examples
An antonym is the opposite of another word. Antonyms can be used to help show contrast between two things or give clues to exactly what is meant. Below are some examples of antonyms:
Well this is just my opinion. Not trying to be provocative but I think it would be nice if we could work together. Some Antonyms INERTIA:
ambition, enterprise, go, hustle, initiative
assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, perseverance
animation, briskness, energy, exuberance, jazziness, liveliness, lustiness, pep, peppiness, robustness, sprightliness, vibrancy, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity
Antonyms of inertia
drive, industriousness, industry
Antonym Examples
An antonym is the opposite of another word. Antonyms can be used to help show contrast between two things or give clues to exactly what is meant. Below are some examples of antonyms:
Achieve – Fail
Idle – Active
Afraid – Confident
Ancient – Modern
Just incase you are interested, composite number has more than two factors. The number 1 is neither prime nor composite. The prime numbers between 2 and 31 are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29 and 31 since each of these numbers has only two factors, itself and 1.
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What are your thoughts on Metrics, Imperial, Fahrenheit and Celcius?