Sagar Media inc Online media About: Sagar Media Inc There’s No Consistent Measuring System For Space, And It’s Hurting Astronomy ON APRIL 19, 2018 BY NARESH SAGAR LEAVE A COMMENT EDIT There’s No Consistent Measuring System For Space, And It’s Hurting Astronomy One physicist has a proposal for fixing this. MICHELLE STARR 18 APR 2018 There’s something sorely lacking in the scientific fields of astronomy and astrophysics. As it turns out, we’re still lacking logical consistency in how we measure what goes on in space. https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-23/html/container.html Writing for the journal Astronomy & Geophysics , retired physics professor Keith Atkin of the University of Sheffield says that our current global “system” – if one can even call it that – is an absolute omnishambles (paraphrasing). “Many of the units used by practising astronomers constitute an ...