I don't know what to say other than I have a hard time reading scientific notation and the metric system. The metric system seems to lend itself to large numbers that are small quantities on the human scale.
> My problem with the metric scale is that when values are expressed in scientific notion they lose all reference to me.
As if the two are connected. But my point is that scientific notation is not part of the metric system at all. If you problem is with scientific notation, that is a problem with scientific notation, not metric.
If anything, with metric units most people outside of the sciences will use the metric prefixes and never ever use scientific notation at all.