It doesn’t make sense to me to read it as a single unit of dumbass. I think it’s supposed to say “1, dumbass”. God admonishing the person.
Because the CPU runs at 300GHz.
1 Dumbass = 299 792 458 m/s
Thanks, God. We'll spend the next 3000 years obsessing over that.
Nah, C is C. Who cares about the current hot measurements of space and time on a little rock, outside of us?
that is the linear rate at which dumbassery expands, yes. also light, but that's because as yet tachyons remain hypothetical/fictional and i figure dumbassyons would travel faster than light were it possible.
like how sometimes you can look at someone or something and think "some dumbass is going to do some dumbass shit here soon" even though the dumbassery has not yet begun.
Both meters and seconds are units of Earth specific measures of space and time. Pretty sure at a cosmic scale god would give fuckall about how we measure and name our shit
If a god existed and gave a so much of a shit about our masturbatory habits he’d be at least tangentially aware of what the fuck a meter was.
For a second i thought you were calling the metric system masturbatory and then i remembered that christians really do think god watches them jork it. Kinky
Actually most constants have been standardized to natural sources. A meter is now a fixed (small) fraction of the speed of light in vacuum. A second is pegged to the duration of a Cesium isotope spinning or something. Just that the multipliers are chosen to be convenient to us.
Should we need to talk measurements with aliens, we can, and can convert between their units and ours.
1 Meter = x umthilions plancs. There, retrospectively defined. In that sense.
Yeah in 2019 we even managed to get the pesky kilogram defined by a natural constant.
dumbass is a nice name for a speed unit.
"I was wondering where the units went" noted: c = 1 dumbass ≈ 3 * 10^8 m/s
And as we know, dumbasses are quick.
MFW I get a ticket for going 5.374x10^-8^ dumbasses in a 4.633x10^-8^ dumbasses zone
It works as a metric thing: "54 nD in a 46nD zone".
(nano Dumbass)
It was my understanding that dumbass is an imperial unit.
There are various systems of units where select physical constants are set to 1. A handy comparison chart is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units?wprov=sfla1
It turns out you can't harmonize all the physical constants. Some will necessarily end up as some non-round number.
Most of them have speed of light = 1, but some have it as 1/α where α is the fine-structure constant (α = e² / 4πε₀ħc ≈ 0.007297)
I understand nothing I've just read but I'm glad you science folk have fun and funding.
It took me awhile to understand the punchline (god is saying the speed of light is 1 dumbass, not calling the person a dumbass as I first thought). Does that mean the speed of light is slow?
I thought the joke was calling the person a dumbass because the speed of light is a constant and therefore having it be 1 makes a lot of sense when looked at from a universal scale. The only reason a meter isn't a clean division of the speed of light is because we defined the meter before we decided to make it a division of c.
I think it means the instead that we made up measurements to measure the speed of light, but the God in this meme doesn't use manmade measurements, so it's just 1 (like 1c). Since the speed of light is the max theoretical speed of anything in the universe, it makes sense that anything else could be measured in fractions of it.
Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.
Makes more sense for God to measure things in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units
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