This may seem like a basic question but, why do all cultures agree on the same units of time, months, hours, seconds, years, while no society can decide on units like torque, pressure, heat and distance. I understand our time scale is based off of the earth's orbit around the sun (year) and its rotation (day) but never understood why all people just accept this unit, especially when we will be a multi-planetary species. Even metric has its issues with Gram-force centimeters vs Newton meters for torque. Or perhaps pressure with Pascal, atmospheres, Torr, psi, inches of Mercury, Gram-force per square meter, etc.
To the whole scientific community: please, please, just pick a single unit!
