Meh, Fahrenheit does start at absolute zero. You confuse the start of a scale and the zero of a scale. Oh absolute zero is cold it would hurt your hands... chuckle, chuckle... is that a logical point or are you just trying to distract?
Music is in base ten, just fractionally. So what if you break a measure up into 8 parts. A half note is 4/8 of a measure. Again you confuse fractions with base. You completely changed topics between talking about how music is composed to the physical composition of tones in order to make me seem wrong. Yeah octaves are based on 2^N math, we all knew that. Base-2 math is not owned by either measurement system.
Ease of calculation is not the only benefit. How about having one bloody unit per unit of measure? What's the sense in having inches, feet, yards, miles for distance instead of a single measure? And Imperial are more convenient? How about a measuring a brake rotor? Are inches or millimeters more natural? How about a film thickness on the order of green light's wavelength? Would you pick mils or nanometers?
I also don't buy this egotistical thing about "man is the measure of all things" where you make it into a choice between a man-based system and a human-abhorrent system. How about the system that isn't based on man but is merely indifferent to man. You don't have to be a tree hugger or some humans are evil type to simply get over the ego about everything being man-centric and get on with it.
The Heisenberg measurement changes the world is hardly man-centric. A measurement doesn't mean a guy in a lab coat with a ruler, it just means any time there is an interaction which requires a definite value. The idea that it takes a person to enact that law... ouch my brain. I guess there's a reason Fark.com has a Florida tag.
|