There’s a convention in theoretical physics to adopt so-called “natural” units. In the natural system of units, measures of length, time, and mass are chosen so as to make the speed of light and the gravitational constant 1. Or sometimes it’s the speed of light and Planck’s constant.
Anyhow, this makes the resulting measures of length, time, and mass completely nonsensical to any human scale problem. But it makes physics equations much shorter to write down, because you can drop all of the c’s, G’s, and h-bars and whatnot.
For example, the famous E = m c^2 becomes E = m. Energy is mass. Voila.
Why is it 1 then?
There’s a convention in theoretical physics to adopt so-called “natural” units. In the natural system of units, measures of length, time, and mass are chosen so as to make the speed of light and the gravitational constant 1. Or sometimes it’s the speed of light and Planck’s constant.
Anyhow, this makes the resulting measures of length, time, and mass completely nonsensical to any human scale problem. But it makes physics equations much shorter to write down, because you can drop all of the c’s, G’s, and h-bars and whatnot.
For example, the famous E = m c^2 becomes E = m. Energy is mass. Voila.
Explains perfectly well how I can eat a hot dog and then go do some things.
Also explains that after I do some things, I need to take a shit.
Don’t correct me, you all know I’m right and fifteen percent of you are currently on the toilet.
15% seems VERY low
Beat me to it!
One Planck Length per Planck Second.