Your car’s gas mileage can be described as a tiny area, and that’s just the beginning. Science is filled with “cursed” units, from the deceptively complex Hubble constant to the bizarre “picoseconds per square root kilometer” used in fiber optics. This exploration reveals the unusual physics and counterintuitive mathematics behind some of the most perplexing ways we measure our universe.
- age of the universe
- chromatic dispersion
- cursed units
- dimensional analysis
- energy units
- expansion of the universe
- fractional exponents
- fuel efficiency
- gravitational constant
- H₀
- Hertz
- hubble constant
- Hubble parameter
- inverse seconds
- joseph newton
- kilowatt-hour
- kWh
- litres per 100 km
- mathematics
- measurement
- megaparsec
- miles per gallon
- nanometres per square root nanometre
- optical fibres
- parsec
- physics
- picoseconds per square root kilometre
- PMD
- polarisation mode dispersion
- polymer physics
- power law
- Randall Munroe
- random walk
- scientific units
- SI units
- unit cancellation
- weird science units
- What If
- youtube
