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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Units (was Re: E=MC^2)
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:38:26 GMT
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- popetz@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Clinton C. Popetz) writes:
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- >I hate units.
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- >"The '1 over 4 pi e not' is there because the coulomb is a fundamentally
- > stupid unit of charge."
- > -My Special Relativity Prof
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- Yeah... in the RIGHT units, it's just 1 over 4 pi. ;-]
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- Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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