Churten
Kind: Unit of beam energy used in Empire-era particle physics. Era of use: ~2641 A.L. and surrounding period.
Summary
The churten is the energy unit in which K. Pasternak’s collider is specified and primed. The story does not give a conversion to 21st-century units; churtens are treated as the local standard in the high-empire era, the same way “GeV” is treated as obvious in our own physics.
Only two churten values are named on-page:
- 5 churtens — the energy at which Nootics theory predicts the Nooticle should appear. This is the design target of the Aerth-Luna-diameter collider.
- 4.3 churtens — the priming level the collider actually reaches before Evie seals the beam chamber. The 5-churten experiment is never run.
Appearances
- Ch. 03 — For Every Dove a Bullet: Beam energy scale for the Pasternak collider.
Related
Open questions
- Named after whom? Unstated. The word doesn’t correspond to any in-universe name introduced so far.
- What’s the conversion to classical units? Not given.