New theory about origin of the life on Earth

[Sayonara]

I think I can honestly say that the mind boggles.

[Daecon]

Sorry I don´t speak English.

Then where do you get your information from that you're posting?

[Severian]

Does all this work in anything other than base 10, or is it dependent on God having 10 fingers?

[Sayonara]

Does it have to be fingers?

 

Maybe he counts on his earlobes.

[YT2095]

erm... pardon the interruption, but wasn`t there some Similar nonsense, in Base 7 about a year and a half ago on here also?

[Sayonara]

Probably.

 

It is, after all, usually the garbage which gets recycled.

[YT2095]

Bingo: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=24751&highlight=base+7

 

and in particular This type of rubbish: http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showpost.php?p=321441&postcount=8

 

I knew I wasn`t trippin`

 

as for the year and a half bit... well Time`s Relative

[Daecon]

Well then it has to be rubbish.

 

God counts in Base 42.

[swansont]

as for the year and a half bit... well Time`s Relative

 

I'm sure it's 1.5 of the appropriate unit.

[pioneer]

The problem with using aliens to seed the earth is that it ignors the question of how did life form on this alien planet? We can only go back so many generations of aliens seeder until we run out of time; assuming the universe is 15B years old. If life could somehow appear to make the first alien seeder, then it is also possible the mechanism occur on the earth.

 

One of the things one must consider when using numbers, distance and time conventions, is that they were chosen for convenience. The English system ft (foot) was probably based on the length of a kings foot about a size 10. The king was not some type of universal bearer of standard, more terrestrial.

 

In the orginal Farenheight system ice formed at 32 and water boiled at 212. The metric system tried to make it more convenient using water. They just so happened to agree on 0 and 100 instead of 32 and 212. If some politians holding the purse strings wanted, 10 and 69 that would be it. The numbers that you present may correlate but they correlate to the present earthy convention and not some type of universal standard.

 

One cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram. That is also convention. The centi-meter could have been 10% bigger and the gram (1.1) cubed, simple because it was the only container there that day. They might have still called these centimeter and gram. It doesn't really matter. Once the standard was set, everything adds up because convention is just a point of reference one which we build everything.

 

The second is close to the rest heart beat of someone who is sleeping. The early clock makers could have just as easily picked their own heart rate. The day could still be 24 hours but the minute would have 60-120 seconds depending how much energy he exerted during calibration.

 

I often wondered why time didn't go base 10. Say 100 metric seconds to a metric minute, 100 metric minutes to a metric hour, and maybe 100 metric hours to one solar day. It would boil down to 15 current mins per metric hour. It would have been awkward at first, like the english system going to metric, but once it caught on everyone would just go with the flow. Maybe it was a labor thing, with nobody wanting to work a 160 metric hour work week.