Re: The kilogram's average weight is about 8.9 N, the world around
From: Yan Grange ("Yan)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:19:00 +0200
hmm okay, and where in your story there is the discussion part? You have a
very sad life, indeed. But if everyone whou would have tghat would start
posting stuff here, I think the whole USENET would be down.
"Donald G. Shead" <dcshead@charter.net> schreef in bericht
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> David, Tom. and a host of otherwise intelligent scientific types
> wrote:
> > What's your joke? I don't get it. Are you really just an idiot
> > obsessed with mass and inertia and force being a fundamental unit? Or
> > is there some history to your stupidity that I am not familiar with.
>
> The history of all this relates back to the fact that I made, and am
> still making a pretty good living, from having been a self educated
> bridge designer:
>
> During this self education I had a few obstacles to resolve:
>
> First "they" wouldn't let me take physics in my senior year of high
> school because I hadn't taken algebra, and everybody knows you can't
> understand or do physics without having taken algebra as a
> prerequisite(;^! Well it's plain enough to see that the concepts of
> physics are just ratios and proportions; which I'd understood quite
> well back in gramma school.
>
> Then when I finally did take a night course at the local tech school,
> they, and the textbook tried to tell me that the fundamental
> quantities of physics are arbitrary: That is you can choose between
> Length, Mass, and Time; or Length, Force, and Time, and all other
> units can be derived from either of these three.
>
> That's a crock and any idiot over thirty should know it; that the
> three fundamental quantities are Length; Force and Time, and together
> they make up the derived quantity called inertia; which is the
> quantity measure of how much matter is in an object; body or mass of
> it.
>
> Anyways, starting as a Junior Draftsman, I eventually was allowed -
> under close supervision - to design a few minor bridges, and
> eventually achieved the title of Highway Senior Engineer (Bridge
> Design).
>
> The pay wasn't bad, and I loved the work; so I stuck with it, through
> thick and thin until I retired about twenty years ago.
>
> _One_ reason for retiring was that I wanted to continue and further
> develope my "wild" ideas regarding physics, math and science in
> general:
>
> That's what I'm doing, and having more fun than ever: If you are all
> too vain, and jealous to listen, that's your problem(;^D~~~
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