9 POINT 3 MINUTES AND ALL THAT

It takes light from the sun 9.3 serious minutes to get here

because the distance to the sun is 93 million miles.

Dividing a year by 2pi gives the orbit radian time: 93 thousand minutes.

The gravitational attractivness of the sun is 93 ×10¹² miles³/minute² = 93 trillion miles³/minute².

And the mass of the sun is 93×10²⁷ talents = 93 quadrillion trillion talents.

WHY SO MANY NINETYTHREES?

just comes out in the arithmetic (because using power-of-ten scaled natural units):

Earth's orbit radian time = 365.25/2pi days = 58.13 days × 1600 minutes in a day = 93,000 minutes.

Sun attractiveness = orbit radian time × speed³ = 93,000 minutes × (1000 miles/minute)³ = 93 × 10¹² (miles/minute)³minute = 93 trillion miles³/minute²

Sun mass = attractiveness× 1/G = 93 × 10¹² (miles³/minute²) × 10¹⁵ talent per (miles³/minute²) = 10²⁷ talent.

A CUBIC MILE CONTAINS A MOLE OF PHOTONS

A mole is 10²³ of anything. At our distance from the sun a cubic mile of empty space contains a mole of sunlight photons. (actually 0.9 mole to be more precise)

their average energy is 10^-23 energy unit = 10^-23 talent(mile/minute)². (1.l to be more precise).

The total sunlight energy is what you get by multiplying and it is 1 energy unit or 1 talent(mile/minute)². 0.98 to be more precise.)