{"id":10660,"date":"2010-03-02T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hella%e2%80%a6yes-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:47:09","slug":"hella%e2%80%a6yes-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hella%e2%80%a6yes-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Hella\u2026yes! | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"

A physics student here at UC Davis, Austin Sendek, has launched a campaign<\/a> to add another designator to the list of numeric SI prefixes<\/a> such as kilo-, mega-, etc. to cover 1027<\/sup>: hella. For example, 1 hellagram would be 1027<\/sup> grams, or 1000 yottagrams<\/a>.<\/p>

The term “hella” is one I first heard my sister-in-law utter in the context “that ski run was hella fun!”, which I immediately took as a shorthand for “a hell of a lot of”. I’ve since learned that it originated, reportedly, in San Francisco to mean just that, or “very” in general, as in “that tee shirt is hella awesome” – it’s not an uncommon utterance to hear here in northern California. <\/p>

And, 1027<\/sup> is hella big, to be sure. A hellasecond is ten billion times the age of the universe, and the mass of the earth is about 6 hellagrams.<\/p>

It seems that hella is poised to go viral…there are nearly 24,000 fans of the facebook<\/a> petition, and it even made the local news last night in Sacramento<\/a>. <\/p>

Who decides such things? The International Bureau of Weights and Measures<\/a>, that’s who. They added yotta in 1991. Sign the petition to them at the facebook site!<\/p>

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