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Time is math I think (slrpnk.net)

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[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The mass cancels out.

I don't know if it's purely a coincidence. The meter comes from the Earth's circumference (1/10 000 000 of the pole-equator distance) and I believe the second is much older, which points to a coincidence.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago

it makes sense that the mass does cancel out, it is a change of potential and kinetic energy at all, i suppose i'm just conflating more complicated things with it lol.

it's pretty likely to be a coincidence, but if i had to guess it's a "lucky coincidence" one that was intentionally chosen because of it's convenience. Rather than by pure happenstance. There's not a particularly good reason 1 meter needs to be 1/10000000 the pole equator distance for example. So that would be pretty easy to reverse fudge nicely.