• observantTrapezium
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    1817 days ago

    That may be relativists (they would actually measure anything in units of mass, with everything else defined through G = c = 1). Astrophysicists commonly measure mass in solar masses, long distances in parsec (or kiloparsec, megaparsec), short distances in solar radii or AU, and time in whatever is relevant to their problem (could be seconds or gigayears)

    • @[email protected]
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      1316 days ago

      short distances in solar radii

      I think astrophycisists and I may have a difference of opinion on the meaning of the adjective short