[USMA:25369] Re: New Definitions & Old

[Brij Bhushan Vij]

I fully agree with Joe in his assertion that 'the YOUNG mind must know' 
where to start from?' and expose newer areas in research where little or NO 
WORK has been done! What existed prior to 1948 must be known to the 'clean 
slate provoking mind' for rewriting or modifying the written WORD; and 
obviously REMOVE/MODIFY what had been written earlier.
If I may add, I have added and deleted my mind along my persuit with 
Metrication as I knew then - especially on Time & Calendars!
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
     *****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!

And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule!
*****     *****     *****     *****
From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:25368] Re: Definitions
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:41:16 -0500
I am afraid that Terry Simpson in USMA 25365 misunderstaood my posing, so I 
will
 rephrase my thoughts:

 >Terry implies that scientific research done prior to 1948, and some
done after that, is not uselful.
Old research is useful. I did not intend to imply that it is not.


Where else than in the SI brochure could a student find
authoritative definitions of erg, dyne, poise, stokes, gauss,
oersted, maxwell, stilb, phot, gall, micron and metric
carat?
That question presupposes that I think that units not current should be in
the SI brochure. I don't think they should be in the SI brochure.


Terry apparently understood the exact oppposite of what I tried to express, 
so I will rephrase my thoughs at greater length.

A scientist before doing a research should know what work has been done in 
his field.  If he is a young student he may not know the metric system as 
it existed before 1948.  He will meet the obsolete units that I listed in 
my previous note in the old research .  He can find authoritative 
definitions of the obsolete units in the SI brochure. Terry would deny him 
this resource. It is not true that all relevant scientific research has 
been done since 1948.

--
Joseph B. Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto  M5P 1C8                Telephone 416-486-6071


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