Makes the point that, because our understanding of the natural world will always necessarily be incomplete, any attempt to replace something in the natural world with human artifice is doomed to failure. Instead, the proper role of technology is to extend existing capabilities (eg visible band telescopes) or add previously unavailable capabilities (eg radio telescopes).
What really drives metric is its utility with logarithms, which are indispensable in the hard and applied sciences. Imperial is all very well and good in the gym or the house building trade, but it's unwieldy for precision manufacturing once you get the chip fab scale.
This essay by truly excellent Megha Verma:
https://classicalideals.substack.com/p/lab-grown-illusions
Makes the point that, because our understanding of the natural world will always necessarily be incomplete, any attempt to replace something in the natural world with human artifice is doomed to failure. Instead, the proper role of technology is to extend existing capabilities (eg visible band telescopes) or add previously unavailable capabilities (eg radio telescopes).
With that argument, base 60 is clearly superior.
What really drives metric is its utility with logarithms, which are indispensable in the hard and applied sciences. Imperial is all very well and good in the gym or the house building trade, but it's unwieldy for precision manufacturing once you get the chip fab scale.