Starting from March 2021, I played VRChat until now, the avatar I use as my normal virtual form is a Kon, a short cute HalfHuman Half-fox character designed by Midori.
Because of that, I am short to other users with average height, sometimes other players just walk to me and asked: "Why are you so smol ?". And I will reply to them:
"Everything here is relative. Size is relative, time is relative. There is nothing which is the biggest, only bigger; there is nothing is the smallest, only smaller. When you say you are bigger, always remember that there will be someone or something bigger than you are; and since I am smaller than you are, of course, there is someone smaller than I am"
Since length, location, time, mass, velocity, energy, temperature, etc are relative, we need a reference point. That's why we have units, That's why we need a reference. We are trying to describe properties around us relative to that unit or perspective.
Still don't get it? Here are some more concrete examples:
- I have a pencil which has a length of 8 times a centimeter, a chosen specific length by the society
- My water is hotter than ice 28 degrees celsius.
- That roller coaster has that certain amount of potential energy relative to that certain height.
- I have Kinetic energy to the sun, but I have no Kinetic Energy to the Earth
If you are a VRChat citizen, share what you have learned down in the comment section below.
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