The use of relative instead of absolute scales transfers better across websites. (slaw.ca)
New reconstructions of spectral irradiance are developed since 1600 with absolute scales traceable to space - based observations. (junksciencearchive.com)
This points to a new kind of growth mechanism in mineralization, and because the theory is independent of absolute scale, it may be adapted to other geometrically constrained growth phenomena in physical and biological systems.» (seas.harvard.edu)