God - Metric or Imperial?

[Lord Pikey]

Perhaps one of my dimmer thoughts to enter my mind but here goes. Over the weekend i came about wondering if God (if such a being exists) worked in Metric of imperial?

I suppose to prove this you would have to measure natural things and see what percentage are spot on to a whole number in either unit?

Or have i been smoking crack?

LP

[Dugiet]

Dumb thread

[DoubleYellow]

I'd say neither. Probably an ancient technique like the one used in the construction of the pryamids, not that I know what that was either.

[DamoLLb]

well the metric system was started in France circa 1791. So, thats 1791AD. You can probably work out the rest from there.

[Mission Drift]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit <- wasn't it?

[Einion Yrth]

DoubleYellow said:

I'd say neither. Probably an ancient technique like the one used in the construction of the pryamids, not that I know what that was either.

The pyramid inch perhaps? :tinfoilhat:

[Nobaccymaccy]

Imperial - at least that was what his son worked in because when the Romans found out ( who being foreign types used metric despite inventing miles) they nailed his feet to a cross in a fit of pique .

[jkennyd]

Nobaccymaccy said:

Imperial - at least that was what his son worked in because when the Romans found out ( who being foreign types used metric despite inventing miles) they nailed his feet to a cross in a fit of pique .

[Sam_68]

You might have stumbled upon something, here...

Metric is the system of measurement that correlates to nature, being directly related to the physical properties of energy and matter.

So if there was a God, he'd use metric.

But we all know that God is an Englishman (a Yorkshireman, in point of fact) so he should have used imperial.

No proper Englishman uses metric by choice, therefore God cannot exist.

QED.

[sleep envy]

Nobaccymaccy said:

Imperial - at least that was what his son worked in because when the Romans found out ( who being foreign types used metric despite inventing miles) they nailed his feet to a cross in a fit of pique .

but what about imperial rome

I reckon god worked in cubits

[OJ]

Sam_68 said:

But we all know that God is an Englishman (a Yorkshireman, in point of fact) so he should have used imperial.

Am I going to Hell if I just imagined God as a Brummie in a set of British Leyland overalls slapping brains into a production line of people, then getting to a pointless big brother celebrity, discovering the brain was too small for the skull, packing it out with a load of filler and finally proclaiming 'Job's a goodun' before sending it on it's way.

Or have I been smoking crack too?

[Cara Van Man]

Lord Pikey said:

Or have i been smoking crack?

You answered your own question.

[cymtriks]

Seriously?

Planck units.

Also the Fibonaci Series, apparently it's patterns can describe plant growth, music, snail shells, aesthetic proportions and population growth.

For a choice between metric and imperial I'd go for Imperial as it's structure is closer to binary (i.e. eighths of an inch) and many of its larger units are directly related to "natural" units (i.e. "a foot" ).

[paulsm]

he probably just did it by eye

[Nobaccymaccy]

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I reckon god worked in cubits
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I thought he worked in mysterious ways - how many of them to an inch ?

[Jeux]

cymtriks said:

Seriously?

Planck units.

Also the Fibonaci Series, apparently it's patterns can describe plant growth, music, snail shells, aesthetic proportions and population growth.

For a choice between metric and imperial I'd go for Imperial as it's structure is closer to binary (i.e. eighths of an inch) and many of its larger units are directly related to "natural" units (i.e. "a foot" ).

Fibonacci

sorry.

Edited by Jeux on Monday 9th March 14:49

[s2art]

Well, the speed of light is near as dammit 1 * 10**9 feet per second.

[Vipers]

Personally, if there indeed was a god, me thinks he was an alien, who came down in some sort of space ship, that I can accept. (I am not taking the piss, I firmly believe this).

In which case, beings that far advanced would not work in bloody feet and inches, so must have been metric?

Sorted then.

[s2art]

Vipers said:

Personally, if there indeed was a god, me thinks he was an alien, who came down in some sort of space ship, that I can accept. (I am not taking the piss, I firmly believe this).

In which case, beings that far advanced would not work in bloody feet and inches, so must have been metric?

Sorted then.

Naah, what makes you think they had 10 fingers? It will be binary, just like several areas of the imperial system.