Physicists need some precise definitions of units, and this is hard. Harder than most people expect. You can't do physics properly using your current king's foot size. This, more than the actual computations, was Huygens' valuable insight.
So you need a universal constant to serve as a standard, and it turns out very few things are in our world. One of them is the ratio of the perimeter of a circle over its diameter. So it's no wonder that this ratio comes up under various forms in our standard units, more often than chance would predict.
This is interesting because students of physics need to understand the complexity and importance of coming up with a standard set of measurement units, based on universal constants.
This is also interesting because the reason we need standard units is that we need science to be reproducible. If all I care about is to understand the world on my own then using the size of my own foot will do just fine as a unit.
Accessorily it's also useful to address the nonsense belief that such coincidences prove the existence of god or the perfection of nature.
None of this will come as radically insightful to you, but there are a lot of people in this world for whom this is not the case.
I'm also not a fan of over the top language, but this seems to be the norm of our attention-seeking times.
Physicists need some precise definitions of units, and this is hard. Harder than most people expect. You can't do physics properly using your current king's foot size. This, more than the actual computations, was Huygens' valuable insight.
So you need a universal constant to serve as a standard, and it turns out very few things are in our world. One of them is the ratio of the perimeter of a circle over its diameter. So it's no wonder that this ratio comes up under various forms in our standard units, more often than chance would predict.
This is interesting because students of physics need to understand the complexity and importance of coming up with a standard set of measurement units, based on universal constants.
This is also interesting because the reason we need standard units is that we need science to be reproducible. If all I care about is to understand the world on my own then using the size of my own foot will do just fine as a unit.
Accessorily it's also useful to address the nonsense belief that such coincidences prove the existence of god or the perfection of nature.
None of this will come as radically insightful to you, but there are a lot of people in this world for whom this is not the case.
I'm also not a fan of over the top language, but this seems to be the norm of our attention-seeking times.