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semi-extrinsicyesterday at 11:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Fun fact: the Planck mass is about 22 micrograms, about the amount of Vitamin D in a typical multivitamin supplement, and the corresponding derived Planck momentum is 6.5 kg m/s, which is around how hard a child kicks a soccer ball. Nothing inherently special or limiting about these.


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ttoinoutoday at 12:49 AM

If you look at Planck units or any dimensionless set of physical units, you will see that mass stands apart from others units. There’s like a factor 10^15 or something like this, i.e. we can’t scale all physical units to be around the same values, something is going with mass and gravity that makes it different than others

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