Constants & Units

The numbers the rest of this site is written in — with their uncertainties, and an honest note where physics disagrees with itself. Values are CODATA 2022, IAU nominal for solar quantities, and Planck 2018 / SH0ES 2022 for cosmology.

The seven that define everything else

Since 2019 the SI has no artefacts and no measured base units. Seven constants are fixed by decree — assigned exact values with zero uncertainty — and every unit follows from them. The kilogram is no longer a cylinder in Paris; it is whatever makes Planck's constant come out right.

Constants

SI base units

Derived and accepted units

Astronomy and other units in use here

SI prefixes

From the Constants and Units databases in Notion. Uncertainties are the standard (1σ) values; “exact” means fixed by definition, not merely well measured. The two Hubble constants are both listed on purpose — that disagreement is the Hubble tension, and pretending it away would be dishonest.