Fewer Metric countries

Perhaps metric units were superseded by "natural units", which are based upon the universal constants of nature, such as the speed of light in a vacuum, the gravitational constant and the Planck constant. The values of the needed constants were not determined in OTL until the early 20th century, which is rather late to establish a new system of units, but perhaps the Great War caused enough disruption that a window opened for such a change to happen. The metric system (and presumably France, where it originated) would need to be discredited enough to allow for this. Maybe in this timeline France was widely condemned as being responsible for the Great War, which was even worse than in OTL?
 
Now compare the number of British winners of Nobel Prizes for scientific subjects to the number of French winners ditto... :p

We all know that if you're neither Anglosaxon, nor Ashkenazi, you have very little chance to win this prize. The Nobel Prize is a big joke...
 
We all know that if you're neither Anglosaxon, nor Ashkenazi, you have very little chance to win this prize. The Nobel Prize is a big joke...

That is such a load of shite.

The Nobel Peace and Economics prizes are sketchy, but the others are no joke at all.

Only someone monumentally ignorant of science could even make that claim.
 
So why not have other nations come up with their own, "improved" versions of the metric system?
In OTL, many countries have their own particular quirks that seem odd to others.

In cooking, Swedes use volumes while Germans use weights.

Swedes use decimetres, but they seem rare elsewhere.

We also have mil = 10 kilometres.

There are peculiar odd measures, such as kkp = coffee cup = 1,5 decilitres.
 
That is such a load of shite.

The Nobel Peace and Economics prizes are sketchy, but the others are no joke at all.

Only someone monumentally ignorant of science could even make that claim.

Only someone monumentally ignorant of science and naive could think that the Nobel Prize is not unfair. Never heard of Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo who was completely ignored?
 
Only someone monumentally ignorant of science and naive could think that the Nobel Prize is not unfair. Never heard of Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo who was completely ignored?
Funnily enough I just finished a book about Leo Szilard. Never awarded a Nobel Prize, but worked out how to create a nuclear chain reaction and patented the first nuclear reactor.
 
Only someone monumentally ignorant of science and naive could think that the Nobel Prize is not unfair. Never heard of Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo who was completely ignored?

You're shifting the goalposts. Lets try again.

Who is there in the world of science, who was awarded a nobel prize and did not deserve it?

Plenty of people could be argued to have been more or less deserving, but for the prize to be a joke, you have to demonstrate that it was awarded to people who didn't vastly advance science.

Your weird racist conspiracy theory doesn't help your case either.
 
Specially so since the Nobel Prize is awarded by Swedes ... which are neither Jewish or Anglosaxon :D
 
You're shifting the goalposts. Lets try again.

Who is there in the world of science, who was awarded a nobel prize and did not deserve it?

Plenty of people could be argued to have been more or less deserving, but for the prize to be a joke, you have to demonstrate that it was awarded to people who didn't vastly advance science.

Your weird racist conspiracy theory doesn't help your case either.

Agreed. This article discusses the controversies surrounding the Nobel Prizes.

http://theconversation.com/the-not-so-noble-past-of-the-nobel-prizes-18939

Nicola Cabibbo was mentioned but the thing is that he lost to a duo of Japanese people, not to "anglosaxons" or Ashkenazi. The groups of people that were discriminated against were women. Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, both "anglosaxons", should have won. Marie Curie still won despite being a woman and despite not being "anglosaxon" or Ashkenazi.

Maine needs to lay off the conspiracy websites. That's the worst conspiracy theory I've ever heard about.
 
for what its worth I haven't gotten a prize either ... nor did 99.99% of the rest of the world (not accounting for any peace prizes given to large organizations) ... therefore Nobel Prizes is heavily biased

:D

wuth that giggle i have a question ...

What does Nobel Prizes honestly have to do with US and UK having to be special and use non-SI units?
 
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