Metric

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A Metric is a unit of measurement.

  • Science is largely based on accurate systems of experimentation and measurement.
  • Sensors and scientific instruments rely on accurate metrics to quantify their readings and data.

Description (Specifications)

Metrics are the abstract, intangible idea-tools by which sophonts measure their environment and what they interact with. Almost every sophont species and world-state develops an indigenous system of measurement and then converts to the system used by the interstellar community when they join it. This leaves a field of many different systems of measurement coexisting, in which one system is used as the primary system of study and intellectual exchange. [1]

Scientific Metrics

Scientific metrics are employed to measure and quantify properties of the physical environment derived thru scientific observation and experimentation. Various physical properties will be assigned relative values according to associated standard metric scales by which they are quantified. Scale parameters can be modified for ease of manipulation and recording by the addition of a standardized prefix multiplier to the metric unit.

Distance & Velocity Metrics (Astronomic)

Distance Metrics (Planetary & Microscopic)

Energy & Power Metrics

Electroagnetism Metrics

Force & Stress & Pressure Metrics

  • Kilopond (kp) (kgf ) ===> (1.0 kp = 1.0 kg-force (1.0g) = 10.0 N = 1.0 daN (DN) "Decanewton")
»» 1.0 kp = 1.0 DN
  • Ton-force (tf ) ===> (1.0 tf (1.0g) = 1000 kgf = 10 kN)
»» 1.0 tf = 1.0 kDN

Gravitation Metrics

» Eotvos (E) = 0.1 μgal/m. (0.0001 μg0/meter)
» Roche Limit:
» Jumpspace Tensor Field Gradient: See Article @ Jumpspace

Mass Metrics

» Local Derivative Units

Temperature Metrics

Time Metrics

Volume Metrics

History & Background (Dossier)

Modern Imperial Metrics are largely derived from an amalgamation of the ruling predecessor cultures that imposed their own systems during earlier Imperia. By far the most influential of these were the old Solomani systems known as the "Système International d'Unités" or "SI-Units" (or today as the System of Imperial Units) and it's associated decimalized unit measurement system known simply as the "Metric System" (the basis of the Imperial Standard Metric Prefix). In many cases, modern Imperial Metrics have been generalized by unfettering them from highly specified dependence upon conditíns in an originating star system by standardisation thru rounding and decimalization - a process known as metrication.

Old Vilani Metrics

Old Vilani metrics (or corrupted versions descended from them) are still sometimes found in limited use locally where Vilani cultural heritage remains strong.

Vilani Distances

The Vilani measured distances in

  • Shiig = "Inch" (34 mm)
  • Amiran = 5 Shiig (170 mm)
  • Edapu = 5 Amiran (850 mm)
  • Khaniimi = 5 edapu, (4.25 meters)
  • Daaku = 500 Khaniimi, (2.125 km.)
  • Deshi ("Vilani Parsec") = 2.17 ly

The Rule of Man

The Rule of Man succeeded in instituting many Terran metrics that replaced many of the earlier Vilani metrics. Some of the Vilani metrics survive in Vilani Space and as elements of folk sayings.[2]

Socioeconomic Metrics

In contrast to mostly tangible scientific metrics, socioeconomic metrics measure social and economic relationships.

Economic Metrics

Social Metrics

Universal Codes:

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
  1. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
  2. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
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