The proposal by Peter Goodyear is without merit, in my opinion, on April Fools
Day or on any other day!
cgs units have no prospect of meeting the provisions of the International
System of Units (SI), now or at any time in the future.
Eugene Mechtly
On Apr 1, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Martin Vlietstra
Dear Mr Mechtly,
My suggestion of using the cgs system in the USA is not to meet the
requirements of SI and the BIPM, but to supplant the SI system.
In any discussion of introducing the metric system, the American people show a
strong aversion to having foreign ideas foisted upon them by their
