On 2004 Apr 30 , at 4:45 AM, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
My suggestion to consider Earth as a *hypothetical sphere* of radius 6371 km and considering this to be 36000 km' (kilometre new (km') is what I mean by redifining the length unit 'New METRE (m') as: 1/10^5th of arc-angle ONE degree; and equal to the distance:
"�Metre (m') is the distance traversed by light, in vacuum, during the time interval, 1/97059575.22TH of the decimal second�. Since�1/100TH of one degree� is to be the Nautical Kilometre; length distance METRE can be seen as 1/100000th of the degree."
Here Decimal Second (sd) is 36% of SI-Atomic Second.
Your proposals seek to institute a new system based on a new basic length unit (not equal to the current, accepted SI metre) and a new basic length unit (not equal to the current, accepted SI second). Therefore, your system is not the SI metric system. Calling your new units "metre" (or "new metre") and "second" (or "decimal second") does not make them part of the SI metric system, and indeed they are incompatible with the SI system..
I am in favor of promoting the SI metric system, which your system is not. I believe the members of this email list are primarily people who which to promote adoption and use of the SI metric system. That was the intention of the people at the US Metric Association who set up this listserver.
The purposes of this email list and the people who use it are not well served by proposals to discard the SI metric system in favor of a different system that is demonstrable incomplete and of dubious quality.
I believe the time has come when I will do as others have done and that is to ignore completely (and not respond to) messages that promote any system other than the International System of Units (SI).
Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ======================== SIMPLIFICATION begins with SI ========================
