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- From: schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul J. Schinder)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Facts and Values (was Where it came from)
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- Date: 25 Aug 92 20:15:37 GMT
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- In <25732@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
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- >Among the rules that every graduate student in HEP knows are
- >(1) c = 1
- >(2) c = 1 foot/nanosecond
- >(3) 1 year = 10^7 seconds
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- Probably because it's a little more important to astrophysics to get
- closer to the right number, astrophysics grad students learn that 1
- year = pi x 10^7 sec (which is almost right). Along with pi^2 = 10,
- it comes in very useful.
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- >(4) a proton weights 1 GeV (see rule (1))
- >(5) All computers are too slow.
-
- >Only (1) and (5) are strictly true.
-
- >-Scott
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- Paul J. Schinder
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