Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> >Chad said:
> >
> >> According the 'scientists and Philosophers" post on Units, a Sv is a
> >> Gy which is J/kg.
> >
> >A Sievert is not a Gray, but rather a Gray multiplied by a dimensionless
> >factor that characterises the biological damage caused by a type of
> >radiation. I don't know what this factor is for microwaves, but it's
> >almost certainly very very low, because these units measure the energy
> >deposited by ionising radiation and microwaves don't cause ionisation.
> >
> >Rich
> >VFP Focused Cellphone Weapon
>
> I think what you meant to say was that the multiplicative
> dimensionless factor is the number that is its own additive inverse...
Shouldn't that be multiplicative inverse? Wouldn't the number that is
its own additive inverse be 0, which when multiplied by something finite
just make it 0?
Julia
who thinks she knows these things, but considering everything that's
happened today, could be totally wrong about almost anything
