In <[email protected]>, on
10/27/2009
at 02:20 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>I don't like metric, personally. Too Earth-centric. I think we need to
>totally divorce all time and distance to more "universal" quantities. I
>nominate the 21 cm hydrogen spectral line for a distance and 7E-10
>seconds for time (time for light to travel 21 cm). 1 gigatick would be .7
>seconds. Then, we can join the galactic societies! <grin>
Physicist have been using units in which c=1 for nearly a century.
Slightly newer is also setting h (or is it h slash?) to 1.
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