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[i2amroy]

Doesn't explain the apparent lack of antimatter though.

Well if you can explain that then you can get your name enshrined in science forever. Baryon Asymmetry is still one of our big unproved problems in science.

[Loud Whispers]

#SeriousResponsesToJokes
That's one of those rules that seems totally true, but when you get to the higher levels they are like, "Well, technically it can't be created or destroyed, but since mass and energy are the same thing, you can take a huge amount of energy can convert it to a small amount of mass, or take a small amount of mass and convert it to a large amount of energy." Thus lots of energy in the big bang -> small amounts of mass in the universe.

That's like trying to explain which came first, chicken or egg - without answering where either chicken or egg originated from

[Sergarr]

Scientific constants generally don't make much sense.

It depends on what do you mean by "making sense". From a certain viewpoint, scientific constants are the only thing that makes sense.

[Arx]

Scientific constants generally don't make much sense.

It depends on what do you mean by "making sense". From a certain viewpoint, scientific constants are the only thing that makes sense.

Well, naturally. From a 'round base ten number' viewpoint though...

[miauw62]

tbh we should all switch to base e, it is the most efficient, after all :v

[Egan_BW]

nah man base i ftw

[Graknorke]

nah man base i ftw

Wolfram says it can't be done

[Sergarr]

I was thinking more alongside "change the system of measurements where speed of light equals 1" and so on...

[sjm9876]

Aye, defining constants as 1 is pretty standard practice after a certain level of physics.

Hell, it even creeps in beforehand - atomic masses sure as hell ain't measured in kilos

[Egan_BW]

nah man base i ftw

Wolfram says it can't be done

wolfram is agent of patriarchy limiting imagination

[Arx]

Aye, defining constants as 1 is pretty standard practice after a certain level of physics.

Hell, it even creeps in beforehand - atomic masses sure as hell ain't measured in kilos

Oh, sure - I just don't think it's practical in day-to-day life.

[Sergarr]

Aye, defining constants as 1 is pretty standard practice after a certain level of physics.

Hell, it even creeps in beforehand - atomic masses sure as hell ain't measured in kilos

Oh, sure - I just don't think it's practical in day-to-day life.

what are you talking about

it's totally practical to use nanolightseconds to measure common distances

[Graknorke]

What about using planck units? it makes everything simpler because you're incorporating physical constants into all your input values anyway.

The average human male is approximately 3.2*10^9 planck masses.

[Bauglir]

nah man base i ftw

Wolfram says it can't be done

wolfram is agent of patriarchy limiting imagination

Wolfram presumably just doesn't know how to handle it.

[scrdest]

Avogardo's Number IS rounded up - when you don't need precision. Like others said, it cannot be moved in value because it's a conversion factor between two arbitrary mass units established independently from each other, but in some applications, 'Fuck that, it's a 10' is used in sciences, mostly for rough top-off-my-head estimates.

It depends on what you use; it's a shame to waste precision of a jillion dollar pipetting apparatus or something with rough concentration calculations, but if you're trying to fill an eppendorf with a shovel, no point in including ALL THE DECIMALS since the equipment error itself will make the result diverge from the calculated ideal.