.....Changing the size of almost ALL the units of measure would mean
throwing out hundreds of >years of measurement data and statistic which
would all have to be recalculated, and ALL >instruments in ALL fields of
study would have to be thrown out or recalibrated.
Fear psychology, I suppose. Nothing shall be lost if use of *provided
conversion mutiple/sub-multiple factors* be used. I made such attepts and
showed the way in my base contribution: The Metric Second (1973 April);
Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi.
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:35687] Re: decimal time
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:02:58 -0500
On 2006 Jan 15 , at 12:33 PM, Martin Vlietstra wrote:
It woud of course an interesting exercise to examine the impact of
introducing a "new second" which is equal to 0.864 of an "old second".
The impact of such a change would be enormous...
The impact would be devastating. All of the SI units are based on 7 base
units. The second is one of those base units. Changing the size of a base
unit would CHANGE ALL THE OTHER UNITS in the SI (except for the other six
base units).
Changing the size of almost ALL the units of measure would mean throwing
out hundreds of years of measurement data and statistic which would all
have to be recalculated, and ALL instruments in ALL fields of study would
have to be thrown out or recalibrated.
No change is acceptable which would essentially throw out almost all of
the present SI. Changing the size of a base unit would do just that:
destroy the SI.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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