Re: Is the newton a unit of avoirdupois yet
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Date: 06/10/04
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Date: 10 Jun 2004 10:01:35 -0700
dcshead@charter.net (Donald G. Shead) wrote in message news:<48402bae.0406100255.19bf660d@posting.google.com>...
> My not being a physist, except an amatuer of it; leads me to ask the
> following questions of you who ARE real physicists:
>
> When the metric system first came out why didn't the people of France
> like it? Why did Napolean grant a reprieve from it?
Why are you asking a history question in a physics newsgroup?
> Now _please_, if you don't mind, will only real physicists who have
> what they believe something constructive to say answer? I've been
> flamed enough already.
You know, I really doubt that.
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