Fortunately, photons can solve Maxwell's equations much faster than I can. Otherwise the speed of light would be minimal.
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Pierre Abbat <p...@phma.optus.nu> wrote: From: Pierre Abbat <p...@phma.optus.nu> Subject: [USMA:45384] Re: Speed in metres per second To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 12:24 PM On Wednesday 15 July 2009 09:29:59 John M. Steele wrote: > Engineers need to know they need pure base units for calculation, but they > already know this. In everyday life, few people do such calculations. > Mostly, they want an estimate of how long it will take to get somewhere. > While they could probably convert the kilometers to meters, they frankly > don't want the answer in seconds (except possibly in a race). Or when computing how fast one can stop, but that requires solving a quadratic equation, which is not something one can do when an accident occurs in front of him! Pierre
