This touches into one of my very favorite subjects, language and its necessary flexibility and the ways it always falls a little (or a lot) short and thus our imaginations are always exceeding the limits of language even as we attempt to create common terms and understanding. I hadn't thought about ways this applies to things like SI and how SI is even arrived at or the fact that the methods used to measure weight have changed, etc.
This touches into one of my very favorite subjects, language and its necessary flexibility and the ways it always falls a little (or a lot) short and thus our imaginations are always exceeding the limits of language even as we attempt to create common terms and understanding. I hadn't thought about ways this applies to things like SI and how SI is even arrived at or the fact that the methods used to measure weight have changed, etc.