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Doubts continue over accuracy of measurement of the ‘Beard-Second’

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has expressed continued doubt over the accuracy of the unit of measurement known as the ‘Beard-Second’.

The ‘Beard-Second’ is designed to measure how quickly in time a beard grows.

According to Wiki:

The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but applicable to extremely short distances such as those in integrated circuits. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second. Kemp Bennett Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 angstroms (10 nanometers). as does Nordling and Österman’s Physics Handbook. However, Google Calculator supports the beard-second for unit conversions using the value 5 nm.

The beard-second establishes a related unit of time, the beard-inch which is 29.4 days (or 58.8 days according to Google)

The BLF says that it will be noted that based on the ‘Beard-Second’ the ‘average’ beard will grow one inch in length in one or two months depending on which scale is issued. However there is no such thing as an ‘average’ beard.

The campaigners say that beards are highly individualistic, far from the ‘man with a beard’ stereotype. The rate of growth may be accelerated or diminished by a range of activities including pruning the beard, marinading it in imperial stout etc.

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we still think further research into the accuracy of the ‘Beard-Second’ is required and we may yet carry out our own tests.