@Lockdownbear
Yes,purely speaking of measurement, they're related. In fact, they're the same.
Minutes/Seconds are just a way of dividing a full circle into finer parts. A minute is 1/60th of a full circle and a second is 1/60th of a minute. Each of those things you said - Latitude , Time on a clock, Angle - form a full circle in some way.
Latitude - Take 2d projection of (ideal, spherical) earth, and divide into 60 parts. You'll get the minute (of latitudes). Take that minute, and divide it further into 60 parts, you get the seconds.
Time - Take a circular clock, do the above divisions, you reach the same thing.
Angle - Keeping one arm of an angle fixed, and rotating the other around the intersection point will give you a circular path. This path can again be divided like above, and again, you'll get the same components - minutes and seconds.
Therefore, a minute is 1/60th of a full circle, and a second is 1/60th of a minute,irrespectiveof where they are used. They form the same proportions.
Well I went on an Internet search and found the above written by a brainy person. They are related in the are measurements of a circle. My brains are blew to bits.
I also came across the theory that 360 degrees was chosen several millennia ago because of 365 days in a year and its a number that's easy to divide.
YY awesome! It's all really interesting esp with the history!
All measurements are, are things humans like so we can get some shared understanding.
In the end the units etc most of them are totally just made up. In the past eg Roman (feet being a good example) it was relatable (ish, my feet area nowhere that big!). Pint- good size for a drink of mild alcohol. Yard, man's stride, again ish.
The thing with those ones is that they evolved so you have eg 16 Oz in a lb, 14 lb in a stone. Hard to work with if you need to do anything involving larger amounts or a bit more involved. But while things at human small scale as it were, perfectly good.
However we've got 10 fingers and toes. We count on our fingers. Babies learn 1- 10 first. Wiggling and counting their toes etc.
10s (decimal) is a much more natural easy way for us to calculate. And our current (successful useful) counting methods are in 10s. Created that way as we have 10 fingers.
10 X 10 is 100
100x 10 is 1000
Etc.
16x 9? (Working with ounces)
14 X 10st 2? (Lb and stone)
3 stone 4 plus 13 lb plus 29 lb
Surely no one can do that without converting it all to the same units first and then converting back? Using 14 or 16 times table...
Metric is natural to us as humans. It's intuitive.
If we had 8 fingers it would all be around 8's. And we'd get it because it's a very familiar way to count.
The metric and SI system are pretty much universal, have enabled massive advances in various sciences. We can share info with others anywhere because essentially we are speaking the same language.
That enables an easy exchange of ideas, theories, advances, technological progress etc etc.
And where decimal is not natural or gives why advantage, or where it would not meet the ability to clearly express and calculate, it stays how it is.
But yeah fuck that. I only understand what a lb of carrots is. And I am outraged that the metric system should even be on the label as well. DAMN YOU EUROCRATS LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!!!