All, I have a big gripe about how physicists misuse (in my judgement) the whole notion of Planck units as if they somehow were the minimum possible units of various physical quantities such as time and length.
It has become fashionable whenever physicists want to refer to the minimum sizes of units they have no idea of as Planck time, Planck length, etc. but so far as I can see from the actual definition of these units there is no reason whatsoever to assume these are the minimum units of physical reality. In fact the Planck mass is many times LARGER than the minimum masses known so immediately the whole notion falls apart. So is the Planck charge 11.7 times larger than the elementary charge known. Does anyone else find this an annoying symptom of imprecise speech among physicists that leads to sloppy thinking as it clearly does in the way physicists use the term infinity to mean very very big? Edgar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
