Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29943340-20180513003841/@comment-30004748-20180513170034

I think the trollface shape is just uneccesary.

Also, how much should a "unit" be?

A light-millisecond might work. If we know how fast it is.

So let's calculate it!

132450226616131000000000000000 metres is the estimated size of our universe according to this article I read along with some conversion of light years to metres. Let's say that's the size of the Trolliverse too. If it took about 10 minutes to travel across this universe, the speed of light would be 493805000000000000000000000 (over 493 septillion) miles per hour. Holy guacamole.

In a millisecond, that Captain Falcon-scaring speed would travel (drumroll please)...

137 quintillion miles. Nope. Try something smaller. A light yoctometer must be small, right?

220 miles (or meters, I forgot the calculation exactly). Not enough for galactic measurement.

After some tinkering the light-microsecond (the weegee light-microsecond), which is about two hundred and twenty quadrillion and seven hundred and fifty one trillion kilometers, seems to shine the most. It's not as big as an entire galaxy but seems good enough. (Our galaxy is about 5 weegee light-microseconds.)

It's final. The unit shall forever be the distance traveled by Weegee Light in one microsecond.