Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: To make this system of prefixes work for metric time , standard units and prefixes would have to be developed for the 4th and 5th exponents to make metric time viable to human life .
Simplified: To make this system of prefixes work for metric time , standard units and prefixes would have to be made for the 4th and 5th exponents to make metric time work for talking about time of human life .