Re: The kilogram's average weight is about 8.9 N, the world around

From: Donald G. Shead (dcshead_at_charter.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: 29 Jun 2004 12:42:12 -0700

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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