Animated introduction to the PROTIUM unit system.
The protium atom — a single proton bound to one electron — anchors the entire framework. Precise and universally derivable measurement defines the four measurement axes: time, distance, energy, and mass.
Time Ht☉: τ(H) = 1 / 1,420,405,751.768 Hz — the hyperfine transition period.
Distance Hl☉: λ(H) = 0.211061 m (21.1 cm) — the flip-length.
Energy He☉: E(H) = 5.874 × 10⁻⁶ eV — the hyperfine quantum.
Mass Hm☉: proton mass = 1.67262 × 10⁻²⁷ kg — the flip-mass.
Each axis has a named tier at 10¹⁰ times its base atomic quantity, along with a formal log₁₀ exponent notation to aid human observers with scale.
The BLIP is around 7 seconds. The CLIP is about 2.1 million kilometers — several times the Earth–Moon distance. The QUIP is about 59 keV, the energy of a hard x-ray photon. The CHIP is the mass of 10 billion protons — roughly a small virus or large protein complex.