Plunit

The Plunit Temporal Scale is a scale for the measure of perceived or apparent passage of time. The Plunit Temporal Unit (PTU) is the rate at which a standard hour passes to the observer. The base value of 1 (on an unsigned scale) defines the passage of 1 hour to appear to take one hour. Incrementing a Plunit value signifies that more than the Caesium standard number of seconds in an hour has passed in what is percieved to have been 3600 SI seconds. Similarly, a reduction in Plunit value signifies that less than one actual hour has passed in what is perceived to have been one actual hour. The Plunit scale is adjusted hourly due to factors that may influence a shift in perceived time passage. The symbol for a Plunit is defined to be the Cryillic Capital Letter Er

The scale is named after its creators, American computer programmers Shaun Peoples and Christoper Laubach, who developed the scale while discussing percieved temperature factors and assignment of Scoville units to spicy foodswind chill factor. Their method, which was devised on October 14, 2008, is known as the Peoples-Laubach Temporal Unit Scale or more informally as the Plunit Scale.

Plunit Value Determination
A Plunit value is assigned a manner similar to a Scoville rating or wind chill factor which is assigned to temperatures, the value is determined by a panel of N observers, where N represents any number of individuals with different perspective on the passage of time. There may be highly local variations on the Plunit scale muchin the same manner that local variations occur in non-local weather systems.

Temporal and Spatial Locality Factors
Termporal and spatial locality contribute directly to the apparent passage of time and also effect the current Plunit
value of an hour. Historical data for statistical analysis is not significant enough to make future predictions based on past Plunit values.

Plunit Scale Value Formula

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