It's measuring speed, speed of light is 1 dumbass.

Which proves God is American (anything except metric)

Oh, I thought OOP just forgot to place a comma:

"First of all, the speed of light is 1, dumbass."

Stubborn as a mule is mentioned in Psalms and Proverbs, so there is precedent.

'Cause there's so many of them. It's like using fruit flies for biological research.

in retrospect, it's perfect for that.

Cause God is American! He don't need no metric shit!

Not as fast as 2 dumbass

How fast can you throw?

1c

It's already the right unit. Like a watt is a joule/s

1 dumbass per idiot

What are you, my 9th grade algebra teacher? GOSH!

For the simulation.

I mean, it's better than trying to scale it to a fraction of the slowest thing that exists...

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club lol

c is a measurable constant, not some unit that is arbitrarily defined. Like Boltzmann's Constant, or the ground state hyperfine transition frequency of the Cesium-133 atom... it just... Is.

Therefore, it is a useful tool to define units. You claim it is a tautology because we write it in units of meters per second, while the meter is defined based on c. This is easily disproven, as you can represent the speed of light in any unit of velocity. It is a fundamental constant, derivable through experiment without any units a priori.

a second is defined as the time it takes for a caesium atom to oscillate exactly 9192631770 times, at least according to the SI. a meter is then defined, as you said, as the distance light travels in 1/299792458 seconds, which corresponds to some large number of oscillations of those caesium atoms. these numbers are pretty much arbitrary though, we just picked them to match our previous, less precise, definitions of meters and seconds. but using oscillations of caesium atoms and speeds of light in your is completely equivalent to using meters and seconds, except that the latter units are more familiar to us

This got me thinking if we defined the metre to be a more round number, like 1⁄300000000.

It would shrink the metre by 0.6918mm.

Now I'm curious about what implications that would have.

But we defined what a meter was long before we knew the speed of light

The small thing defines the big thing that defines the small thing that defines...

There's a convention in theoretical physics to adopt so-called "natural" units. In the natural system of units, measures of length, time, and mass are chosen so as to make the speed of light and the gravitational constant 1. Or sometimes it's the speed of light and Planck's constant.

Anyhow, this makes the resulting measures of length, time, and mass completely nonsensical to any human scale problem. But it makes physics equations much shorter to write down, because you can drop all of the c's, G's, and h-bars and whatnot.

For example, the famous E = m c^2 becomes E = m. Energy is mass. Voila.

One Planck Length per Planck Second.