Because every science course I’ve taken so far has left me even more confused than ever.
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Good answers all around but one addition: Scientists don’t like scientific notation either. Generally, they’ve found units that make sense when working with whatever scale they need.
Thus astronomers describing stars don’t give miles or meters for distance but light years. Far away galaxies tend to get MLY – million light years. Same idea for particle physicists, but on a much tinier scale.
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