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- From: greg@skatter.usask.ca
- Subject: Re: Anyone checking UNITS? (Abian)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.234807.19765@access.usask.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:48:07 GMT
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- From article <wcscps.722546141@cunews>, by wcscps@alfred.carleton.ca (Mike Richardson):
- > I was leafing thru the news, and noticed some of what Mr. Abian said
- > (IF I may quote): "My little finger has more intelligence than Newton
- > and Einstein put together"
- >
- > Very impressive (If true).
- >
- > Mr. Abian also says (In the tag line of each message),
- > "E=mcc (Einstein) must be replaced by E=m(0)exp(-At) (Abian)"
- >
- > Now, I'm a T.A. for 1'st year physics, and if ANYONE handed this in
- > they would FAIL. Not on the basis of theory, but plain UNITS.
- >
- > [E]=kg*m*m/s*s
- > [mcc]=kg *(m/s)*(m/s)=[E]
- >
- > So far so good...
- > However, Mr. Abian says E=m(0)exp(-At)
- >
- > [m(0)]=kg (of course)
- > [exp(-At)]=dimensionless
- >
- > From his equation, I can deduce that [A]=inverse time, but perhaps,
- > Mr. Abian, you missed a proportionality constant somewhere? I may not
- > be as intelligent as you claim to be, but I propose a slight
- > modification to your theory...
- >
- > E=mcc (Einstein) must be replace by E=m(0)C exp(-At) (Abian-DeKok)
- >
- > Where the C, of course is a constant with [C]=m*m/s*s
- > Hopefully waiting for future recognition.
- >
- > Alan DeKok
- > (using Physics Society account)
- >
-
- Touche.... me thinks?? We await the worm....
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