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[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Eh. Fundamental units are about the unit itself and not the value. Like the second is the fundamental unit of time but you can really have fractions of a second. Or were you thinking of something like Planck units? Those are the smallest theoretical units that make sense given general relativity. So a Planck length is the smallest distance between two points that would be considered two separate points. Any closer and they are effectively the same point.

Maybe the Mooch was the Planck unit and the Zachariah is the quantum unit?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Maybe the Mooch was the Planck unit and the Zachariah is the quantum unit?

Hang on, I think others posted that Mooch was fired before he signed his contract. This would suggest that a Mooch is in superposition existing in both a fired from employment and not yet hired for employment simultaneously. So only observation can collapse the waveform to obtain a singular value of a Mooch for a given moment.

[–] Fishy@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I was thinking smallest theoretical unit. I knew I had made a mistake and couldn’t think of the correct term. And I wondered if anyone was going to correct me. I’m happy you did.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Ironically the name, "second," implies that it's not fundamental.