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About these units
Planck Length (ℓₚ)
The Planck length, approximately 1.616 × 10⁻³⁵ meters, is perhaps the most conceptually profound unit in physics. It represents the scale at which classical notions of space and time cease to exist and quantum gravity effects dominate. Below this length, it is believed that spacetime becomes "foamy," subject to fluctuations predicted by quantum field theory and speculative models such as string theory. The Planck length is derived from fundamental constants: the speed of light, Planck's constant, and Newton's gravitational constant. These constants combine to yield a natural scale where both quantum mechanics and general relativity must merge into a unified theory. No experiment has ever probed distances anywhere near the Planck scale — it is many orders of magnitude smaller than even the size of protons — but it plays a crucial role in theoretical cosmology, black hole physics, and models of the early universe. The Planck length stands as a symbol of the limits of physical measurement and the frontier of fundamental physics.
League (lea)
The league is an old unit of distance whose length varied widely across cultures, usually somewhere between 2.4 and 5.5 kilometers. Historically, it represented the distance a person could walk in an hour. Maritime and overland leagues existed, further complicating the unit's consistency across regions. In literature—particularly in adventure writing such as Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas—the league became a poetic and evocative measure of great distances. Even when not scientifically precise, its cultural and narrative resonance helped cement its place in storytelling. Though obsolete in modern measurement, the league remains an evocative relic of pre-industrial travel, when human endurance served as a baseline for measurement.