Cake Recipe in strange science units - Sixty Symbols

Dr Becky Smethurst adapts a classic Mary Berry cake recipe, using a combination of strange science units.
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Postscript: Becky got so excited by this idea of a physics cake recipe that she went full steam ahead and managed to ignore her own advice about being careful with units. For those wishing to convert the values back to normal metric values in order to bake the cake, know that it should be 126 giga-yotta eV/c2 of both sugar & flour and only 0.02 Hubble Barns of butter. Otherwise you’ll end up with a cake that is ~74% butter and Mary Berry won’t enjoy that soggy bottom.

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Postscript: Becky got so excited by this idea of a physics cake recipe that she went full steam ahead and managed to ignore her own advice about being careful with units. For those wishing to convert the values back to normal metric values in order to bake the cake, know that it should be 126 giga-yotta eV/c2 of both sugar & flour and only 0.02 Hubble Barns of butter. Otherwise you’ll end up with a cake that is ~74% butter and Mary Berry won’t enjoy that soggy bottom.

[smuecke]

Got the SI prefix wrong, accidentally used all the flour in the universe.

[quahntasy]

Instructions unclear. Baked a room full of cake, no space to live.

[JustinKoenigSilica]

what reading american recipes feels like

[raykent]

A "large" mixing bowl? Undefined.

[stribika]

Still better units than "teaspoon", "cup", and "cook until it's ready".

[samfindlay]

Instructions unclear...made dark matter

[WilliamDye-willdye]

The mixing bowl is about one deci-smoot in diameter.

[bierrollerful]

Can we use this to determine whether natural constants are changing over time? Bake one cake now and bake another in a million years and compare if they are equally tasty.

[bartman]

Instructions unclear, now have black hole in my kitchen.

[no_handle_required]

Dr. Smethurst could make anything interesting, and usually does. This is perfect.

[trurlCXC]

Somewhere in the world physics teacher is writing perfect exam question

[culwin]

What non-Americans hear when videos use Imperial units.

[SEDiaz]

That was great! The baking time, however may be off by several Yotta-Planck times. To be sure the cake is done, you should first check for raw batter in the separate pans using approximately 17.35 micro-cords of wood.

[alexdagios]

It looks like a comercial from rick and morty's interdimensional TV xD

[LuciolaSama]

Ha, I love academics getting geeky. More of this, please!

[vtron]

Feels spongy, is it the cosmic web, or the quantum foam?

[TheFvpss]

Reminded me of a Rick and Morty episode...."Everyone has a plumbus in their home. First they take the dingle bop and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then...repurposed for later batches.

They take the dingle bop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed, becasue the fleeb has all the fleeb juice.

Then, a schlami shows up, and he rubs it...and spits on it.

They cut the fleeb. There's several hizzards in the way.

The blamfs rub against the chumbles, and the...plubis, and grumbo are shaved away.

That leaves you with...a regular old plumbus"

[katgirl]

Love to see a printable version on your webpage :)

[Hecatonicosachoron]

An activity to increase your relativistic mass for 167 sextillion yotta-Planck times