ShadowDragon8685 wrote:About how long is a Solon?
I know that the Insider describes it as "a bit longer than one second" and "one heartbeat." One heartbeat seems an unusually imprecise thing to ascribe a measurement of time to, unless Loroi are so incredibly overengineered that their heartrate never fluctuates, either between individuals or in the same individual depending on their state, whether at rest, in the heat of battle, running for their lives, or engaging in orbital skydiving.
I am presuming that Loroi heartrates do differ, both by state and between individuals (though probably not as much as human heartrates do,) but that "one heartbeat" was used as a rule of thumb for millenia before it was scientifically and officially defined by the Loroi scientific community.
Anyway, I've just been using 1.1 as a multiplier. IE, to express one half-hour of UTC, I multiply 60 (seconds) by 30 (human minutes) by 1.1 to arrive at 1,980 solon, and then round the results as appropriate (IE, 2,000.) Am I way off base, or in the region of on-target there?
1 solon “beat”: one heartbeat, 1.092 seconds. The average rest heartbeat for a female Loroi is approx. 55 beats per minute.
1 bima “moment” = 1 dinosolon = 64 solon (70 seconds). Infrequently used unit between beat and cycle.
1 digel “cycle” 1 danzosolon = 1 dinobima = 64 bima = 8 nestasolon = 4096 solon = 4473 seconds (1.25 hours)
1 tibos “day” = 21 digel = 26.09 Earth hours
1 nanapi “transit”= 241.92 hours (10.08 Earth days)
1 mannal “pace” = 0.776 m
1 malir solon “radiance beat”~= 1.1 light second, 327,373 km.
1 Deinar sina “Deinar gravity” or “standard gravity”: 9.216 m/s^2, ~= 0.94G
1 nasitosdal sina “shipboard gravity” = 7/8 (0.875) standard gravity = 0.82G
1 Deinar tozon = one Deinar year, similar to one Earth year
1 nistil tozon = “standard year;” 44 months (22,195,037 seconds, 256.887 Earth days, 0.7033 Earth years)
