On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > wrote:
> I don't like metric, personally. Too Earth-centric. I think we need to > totally divorce all time and distance to more "universal" quantities. I > nominate the 21 cm hydrogen spectral line for a distance and 7E-10 seconds > for time (time for light to travel 21 cm). 1 gigatick would be .7 seconds. > Then, we can join the galactic societies! <grin> > OK, now you're scaring me, because I find this appealing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
