[time-nuts] SI Unit Problems

[Don Latham]

I agree. After all, teh SI system is clearly God's units as revealed by
the French...
Don

Wolfgang
> ...probably somebody who hates SI units for some unknown reason and uses
> his intelligence to construct a couple of ridiculous "arguments" supposed
> to show that this system of units had holes.
>
> On Tuesday 05 April 2011, Brooke Clarke wrote:
>> // This means that, if you follow the rules of the SI,
>> // 1 Hz = 1/s = 1 radian/s which is simply inconsistent and violates
>> basic
>>
> Why exactly should hat arise when "following the rules of SI"?
>
> If I follow this guy's rule, I could also argue:
> 1 Hz = radians Hz = radians^2 Hz = radians^3726 Hz.
> Similarly, 1 s = radians s = 1 radians s.
>
> That's independent of the definition of Hz and seconds and can be
> constructed
> whenever you can replace numerical "1" with something else.
>
> Where's the point? What links radians to seconds?
>
> But hey, guys, sshhh... don't tell this guy that you could also write
> Hz = s^-1 because then he'd start with 1 Hz = "seconds to the power of
> a negataive radiant" which clearly shows that SI units are utterly
> perverse!
>
> Wolfgang, DL1SKY
>
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