Author: Borked Pseudo MailedBorked Pseudo Mailed
Date: Jul 31, 2008 20:37
> The concept of setting fundamental constants equal to one
> is an old practice among theoretical physicists. Typically
> the speed of light, c, and electron charge, among others,
> is set to one.
Ditto to this. When I was in junior high school and we ("the
smart kids") were becoming enamored with E=mc2 and other
"advanced" concepts we argued over whether light speed c or
some other natural constants should be unitary and
dimensionless and would then re-evaluate and re-define units
of mass, length, energy, etc. in terms of c.
It's a great exercise to learn the relationships in physics
but
-- I repeat: JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL -- rather juvenile and
unoriginal.
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