Measurements are not objective

[Mixcoatl]

Doesn't make it subjective that measurements are always relative to the scale you're using? 

That scale had to be defined by another scale making all the measurements always a relative comparison in an infinite chain or a circular chain of measurements and definitions. 😅

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Mixcoatl

[Mixcoatl]

A meter (m) is defined by the distance that light travels in a certain defined period. Hence, the definition of meter depends on the definition of time.

Time definition, a second (s), is defined by the period occurred during a certain number of times a cycle of the  radiation of cesium occurs. But this is circular because frequency is defined by time!!

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Mixcoatl

[Nemra]

I would say that, more fundamentally, those measurements are constructed on the change of present and past of some sensory phenomenon.

But the thing is that the past was present before getting to the present and it is also referred to in the present.

So the measurement is constructed on the present moment, and past moments that were present moments that together are constructed on the present moment. Past is a nested construction within the present.

Edited 31 minutes ago by Nemra

[Mixcoatl]

1 hour ago, Nemra said:

I would say that, more fundamentally, those measurements are constructed on the change of present and past of some sensory phenomenon.

But the thing is that the past was present before getting to the present and it is also referred to in the present.

So the measurement is constructed on the present moment, and past moments that were present moments that together are constructed on the present moment. Past is a nested construction within the present.

Agree. It makes them less objective because they try to measure the change of time in which they are occurring.