In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005bde01...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>, on 10/27/2009 at 02:20 PM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>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> Physicist have been using units in which c=1 for nearly a century. Slightly newer is also setting h (or is it h slash?) to 1. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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