On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:41:51 Han Maenen wrote: >If I understand it correctly, Marcus proposes a 60% reduction of the length >of the meter to what is at present 40 cm! Then all other units will change >too...
Actually my post was not meant to be an "official proposal" for change, but rather like a... "philosophical" question on what one could do to improve on the SI system. I evidently have no ambition to transform this into something more than that! >I think that such a vast change in SI to-day is fuel for our ifp friends. Please note my statement above. Of course I do realize the monumental changes related to that "proposal" of mine. However, could we "dream" a little and perhaps think of an "ideal" system, just for the fun of it? :-) >Don't rock the boat now or it will sink. At first ifp must be defeated. I evidently totally concur with the above. I just apologize if you took my post as something more... "serious" than it deserved. >And the cost involved would be staggering. Hypothetically, yes, it could. Just don't forget though that the more people make use of technology the less expensive it can get if, hypothetically, one would come with even such radical proposals... But there is nothing to prevent us from dreaming, is there?... >For the same reason I am also opposed to make speeds in m/s compulsory >to-day. I totally agree with Jim and John. Make it optional as an addition >on speedometers. >... We wouldn't need to resort to the m/s idea if we had gotten the time component of the SI system "right" in the first place. Pity that we're now stuck with such ancient concept. But since fixing that would envolve a monumental change why not go the whole distance and also fix the other stuff? That's why I volunteered that... "crazy" proposal. But a one that should be *idealistically* sound *as a system*. (BTW, I think I may have made some boobos in the calculations of a few things there, like the value of the new "peso". It was very late and I had a terrible painful day, sorry, folks...) Cheers, Marcus Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
