2. Contents:
Page 3- Introduction
Page 4-5- Measurement as a Tool
Page 6-7- Systems of Measurement
Page 8-9- Tools of Measurement
Page 10- Symbols of Measurement
Page 11- M&M: Measurement and Material
Page 12-13- There is Always An Exception
Page 14-15 Connection to Life
Page 16- The Benefits of Measurement.
Page 17- The Challenges with Measurement
Page 18- Pictures
Page 19- Credits
Page 20- Personal Notes
3. A Very Short Introduction
Have you ever thought of what canʼt be measured?
Actually, there is no standard answer to that, it depends of
what you define what can be measured. If you define
measurement as an actual tool that depends on what the
society is capable to do now, you canʼt actually measure
antimatter. As no matter can get close to it. But if you define
measurement as infinite capability of tools, you could
measure antimatter, as maybe someday something can get
close to it. These are just a few examples of measurement.
Maybe someday Measurement could help invent something
really useful, actually measurement already helped
invented something useful, because nothing useful could
be invented without measurement, think about it, how can
measurement help you achieve something useful in the
future, look further into your future, and you would find out
that measurement, this term, is vital for life. Therefore,
measurement should be considered as a subject, not a
useless term for mathematics. If you ask me, I would say
that one sixth of mathematics is measurement. Here, I
conclude that measurement is something that we use
everyday, which is vital for society and environment.
4. Measurement as a tool
First of all, you have to ask yourself, what is
measurement, how can you define it? Letʼs talk about
it as a tool first. How can measurement be a tool? As I
said before, measurement is vital for life, so is it a tool
that assists life and society? Well you could put it that
way, but there is another problem, there are tools to
support measurement, so there is a tool in a tool?
Does that make sense? If you consider it carefully, it
does. Measurement is a great tool for people, society,
environment, and even animals. If there was no such
thing as measurement, would we exist? The answer is
no, if measurement didnʼt exist, we would have not
built buildings properly, they would fall, then that will
wipe out some people, but it could be even more
deadly, if measurement didnʼt exist, we wouldnʼt know
how many pills we would have to take when were sick,
so we would die. Measurement is a great tool for us, in
fact, it is so great that we often forget that it is very
important, for example, when the teacher tells the
class “boys and girls, we are going to start an
assessment on measurement.” The whole class will
start to get bored, but why? Measurement itself is not
very boring, but how does that affect psychology of the
students? Is measurement something that is too
common to be aware of? In fact, I think that
measurement is way too common, schools should
share the newest technology with the students, so
they would have some interest in the measurement,
which would help the society and the environment
later on, as the schools could develop great leaders
5. with the urge. Measurement could be a great tool to
assist life. It is a great habit to think about measurement
usually, reflecting on your connections to measurement,
it would be great, considering that measurement would
help invention develop in the future, you might just wake
up one day and invent a thing out of nowhere. Who
knows? Life is unpredictable.
6. Systems of measurement
Everything needs a system, think about it. Most people
think that system is easy to define. But in fact, it is very
hard to define, in the dictionary, it says “a set of
connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in
particular” but a system is something that is hard to
define, because it is partly subjective and objective, it
totally depends on what you define system is. Thinking
about systems, most people think that it is enough to
know the systems in measurement but they are wrong,
very very wrong. You have to consider why the systems
exist, why they are here, how did they come? Then you
have to think about measurement itself, if no systems of
measurement exists, how does measurement still
survive? These questions are all very subjective, it
depends on the person whom you are asking. So letʼs
answer the first question, why are they here? It is just
like measurement, measurement is a tool that assists
society and environment, and the systems of
measurement is a series of tools that assists
measurement. How many systems are there? Although
there are common systems such as the imperial system,
metric system, US systems, SI units, energy systems
and much more, how many systems are there? People
are starting to get confused with that, according to the
definition, there are infinite systems, for example you
could just walk up to the street and invent a new system.
7. There is nothing in the definition that says it has to be
internationally recognized. So therefore, according to
the limits of the dictionary, there is infinite systems in the
world, because nobody knows who would invent there
own system. And on the other hand, a lot of new
systems are going to start to be recognized, while some
systems are starting to get abandoned. For example,
would you see a street sign with a ancient Babylonian
system? You wonʼt! these are just some examples of the
discarded system. The world is changing every single
second, and so is the definition of measurement. Maybe
ten years later, the imperial system would not exist, who
knows?
8. Tools of measurement
Talking about the tools of measurement,
everything needs a tool to assist it. Think
about it, life is a great example, if there are no
tools in this world, would life exist? No. Life is
practically a complex game with people in it.
there would be no life if there is no tools.
There is the same theory in measurement.
Tools work just like systems, in the set of tools
in measurement, the set is {x: x = n} that
means the set of x is infinite, how I said there
is a infinite set of tools is just like the concept
of systems, anyone could walk up the street
and invent a tool right? According to the
oxford english dictionary, it didnʼt say it has to
be internationally recognized like the ruler,
clock, lights, compass, etc. So I suppose I
could just invent another tool like the eye, itʼs
not against the law, is it? But the big point
here is that measurement itself is a tool, so
there is a tool in a tool in a tool. Very
complicated. But studying the tools of
measurement isnʼt the big point, for example I
know 124 tools of measurement. So what?
there is no point of just knowing the tools. The
big point is that to understand measurement.
9. To know the tools and systems are second in
priority, the big point is to understand how
measurement affects and how the tools assist
them.
10. Symbols of measurement
What is the purpose of having symbols?
Why do we need them? Symbols are
practically a set of guides that make you
life easier. But it is still complicated, for
example, lb. which is pounds, can be a unit
and a symbol. What I am saying is that
symbols are hard to define, symbols of
measurements are even harder. Can “=”
be a sign of measurement, I suppose so.
because when you need to convert units,
you use “=” a lot. But it is the same as tools
and systems, symbols can be infinite, the
dictionary didnʼt limit the amount of
symbols, or it did not say that there could
not be symbols not recognized. So the
point here is that there could be a set of
infinite symbols. But as I said before,
symbols and tools and systems are not as
important as the thinking of the children.
11. M&M: Measurement and Material
How does material relate with measurement? It
is very confusing, I think that measurement and
material canʼt be effective without each other,
why? Because measuring tools are made out of
materials, and materials would be out of shape
and wrong without measurement. But the most
important part of it all is that we would not exist
without material, because our food is material,
our space is material, and even us, we are
material. But this is very subjective, it is not a
one word answer. We have to think carefully
about the definition of material and
measurement. Again, going for the definition is
not very effective and accurate. Because the
definition changes as time passes by, but this is
just a matter of time. I am certain that the
definition of measurement will change. Can
anything affect the definition of measurement to
change faster? As far as I am concerned, no.
But who knows? Life would be boring without
surprises.
12. There is always an exception
Have you ever say the taiche sign? In the black
part, there is a white dot, and in the white part
there is a black dot, what does that mean? It
means that under any conditions, there is
always an exception. As in the black, the
exception is white, and in the white, the
exception is black. So is measurement, you
could measure objective things, but not
subjective things, what this means is that for
example, you canʼt measure how much you like
eating chocolate. How could you do that, for
example if you say that you like chocolate 5/7,
and another person says 200%, you donʼt really
know what the other person means by 200%,
do you? So measurement is not really that
effective in calculating subjective equations. So
is there an exception to that? Maybe, perhaps it
is if the denominator of a perspective is the
same, so for example person a, says that he
likes chocolate for 12% and person b says that
he likes chocolate for 24% then you certainly
know that person b likes chocolate more than
person a, because the denominator is the
same: 100. So this is concluded, everything has
an exception in it, it is just a matter of how
much there is. You can not just calculate the
error by ±0.001 or something like that, it is a
matter of the psychology of humans, how do we
13. think. This is partially a matter of philosophy,
psychology, and behavior of humans.
14. Connection to life
Does anyone just teach you for nothing? No, in
fact, the same theory is used in math and
measurement. Why do you learn? It is
because this learning would help you in the
future. Measurement has a lot of connections
to life. As I said before, could life even exist
without measurement? I think probably not.
But if you donʼt want to be a mathematician or
a physicist why bother learn measurement?
Did you ever ask this question? The answer to
that is that kids are too young to understand
life. They do not know what they want to be,
they might want to be a military pilot and
change two years later. Life isnʼt straight
forward, there are bends on the road of life,
you canʼt be too determined in one thing, the
world changes. Change. Maybe one decade
after, there would be a hundred jobs that didnʼt
exist yet now, teachers are building up kidʼs
foundation, so they would be successful no
matter what they become in the future. But the
problem here is that the teachers donʼt tell us
what they are thinking deeply. So children
wonʼt understand the meaning of learning.
Children learn and remember faster than
adults, so if they donʼt take their chance,
15. Theyʼll miss it. Children nowadays are improving, but
they still need to know the meaning behind learning.
Once in a while, I hear some kids say to me “Ian, we
donʼt have to learn to enter university, cause even
albert einstein failed his university exam!” But as I said
before, there is an exception in everything, and albert
einstein is an exception, most people donʼt be
successful after they failed there entrance exam. He is
an exception.
16. The Benefits of measurement
Is there anything that you can benefit from
measurement? Yes both the society and
environment benefit. The way the society benefits
is that without measurement, skyscraper would
collapse, because there is no measurement for
the structure of the substance the skyscraper is
made out of. So the world would collapse. For the
environment, the scientist wonʼt have things to
measure the carbon-dioxide in the air and people
would not realize their harm to the environment.
Therefore, the trees and animals will die of
excessive carbon-dioxide. But however, we
should not think about that, because they are just
“if”s. The actual problem is that humans donʼt
realize how lucky they are with measurement,
they take it for granted. The world should reflect
their selfs on it. If we donʼt use it properly, it is
going to go one day. Just like life, if you donʼt use
it properly, youʼll die.
17. The Challenges of Measurement
If we say measurement is really that good, does it
provide challenges to society? If you think
carefully, yes. Because when measurements
were first discovered, it humans were really eager
to measure precisely, but until now, people are
not able to measure with one hundred percent
precision, and never will be able to do that, so
scientist who are working on that are actually
wasting their own lives. So therefore, many
people are now eager to measure with deadly
accuracy, so here and now, the population of the
world is actually decreasing if you think about it
carefully. Because people wasting their lives
equals that they do not exist, though their body
will certainly consume space on earth, their souls
are lost.
20. Personal notes
When I was in prep, I found that the teachers
wasnʼt explaining about why we do this and
what this could help us in the future in math,
so I got bored at math in school, thatʼs why I
do individual research in math. At grade 2, I
started to understand the language that the
whole world knows: Math. I started to do crazy
researches on Math and physics. I always
wanted to share the purpose and meaning of
math and physics to others. Math is much
more than just calculations and equations, I
think math is sort of a art, or a language,
because everybody knows math and math
ranges from Beginner additions to matrix
calculus, so it is certainly a great language to
teach. But what schools are lacking now is
that they do not teach how math can improve
and assist life, and how it could help you in the
future.
