Trouble With My Space麻烦与我的空间

Over on Nature Networks, Henry Gee a brilliant writer there, alerted me to a debate with cosmic and geological implications.以上对网络的性质，亨利张基辉煌的作家有，通知我到一个辩论与宇宙及地质意义。 Apparently, there’sa problem with My Gy and the proverbial “they” would like to switch to Ma Ga. So, what’s Henry talking about?显然，有问题，与我的照射和谚语“他们”想切换到马乔治亚州的话，什么的亨利谈论？ You may well ask.你也许会问。

It is a这是一个 question of scale问题的规模 , something dear to the heart of Significant Figures.一些亲爱的，以心脏显着的数字。 Apparently, two august bodies, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), want to change the way we write about years.显然， 8月2机构，国际联盟的纯化学和应用化学（ iupac ） ，以及国际地质科学联合会（国际地质科学联合会） ，要改变我们写年。 They are not worried about a decade or two, or even centuries and millennia, they are talking truly cosmo and geo timescales where years are numbered in the millions and billions, mega years and giga years.他们担心的，不是十年或二，或什至数百年和千年，他们所谈的真正小宇和地缘的时间哪里来的编号在数百万数十亿06年和Giga年。

Until now, most scientists have assumed that a million years is best abbreviated as Mega year (My) and a billion (1000 million) as a Giga year (Gy) (strictly speaking it is more common to see Myr and Gyr).直至目前为止，大多数科学家假设1万多年，是最好的简称米加年（我）和10亿（ 1000万美元）作为一个千兆年（照射） （严格地说，这是较为常见的看到马币和gyr ） 。 But, in their wisdom the IUPACS (I-yoo-pax) and IUGS (I-uggs), want us to use annum instead of year, so that we will then talk geologically of the pliocene, for instance, having occurred at 5.3 to 1.8 Ma and the age of the Universe as 13.7 Ga.但是，在他们的智慧了iupacs （一佑人以上成行）和国际地质科学联合会（一uggs ） ，希望我们利用每年而不是一年，以便届时我们会谈地质的上新世，例如，发生在5.3 1.8毫安和宇宙年龄为13.7乔治亚州

Henry suggests that it smacks of a throwback to the Battle of Hastings and “gratuitous Norman French Imperialism”, but I suspect it’sa more recent euphemistic culture of the kind that turns water into aqua on shampoo bottles and renames nuclear processing sites from Windscale to Sellafield as if somehow we would think “they” were talking about a wonderful new seaside resort on the Irish Sea.唐英年表明，它嫌倒退到战役的黑斯廷斯和“无偿诺曼法语帝国主义” ，但我怀疑这是较近期的委婉的文化，那种轮流把水王水对洗发水的瓶子和重新命名的核处理的网站从windscale ，以塞拉菲尔德作为，如果在某种程度上，我们会觉得“他们”人在谈论一个美好的新的海滨度假胜地对爱尔兰海。

All that aside, it does put an odd slant on MySpace.com, will Murdoch have to rebrand and change his accent to comply with the IUPACS and the IUGS, thus bringing us MaSpace instead?所有这些之外，它提出的一单斜对myspace.com ，将默多克要rebrand和改变自己的口音，以符合iupacs和国际地质科学联合会，从而使我们maspace不是？