President Lincoln was dead in 1866. Legislation in question was signed by Andrew Johnson. This is way too complicated for a Senator to understand. They are political science or pre-law majors mostly. Stick to baby steps like the FPLA update and take it one step at a time.
On Sun, May 5, 2019, 11:23 AM gct <[email protected]> wrote: > i emailed to senator feinstein > http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me > It is very important that all students learn the metric system 1st. > Before being introduced to foot/pound, they should learn that: > President Lincoln signed pl39-183, metric act of 1866, pl39-183 went into > effect in 1866 making It illegal to refuse to trade in metric. > USA is member of convention du metre. > All the units of electricity and magnetism are derived from the meter, > kilogram, coulomb and second. Till exempel, the volt is defined, such as if > an electric charge of 1 coulomb changes electric potential by 1 volt, there > is energy exchange of 1 joule. As a consequence, an electrical current of 1 > amp thru 1 volt for 1 sec delivers energy of 1 joule, which is the kinetic > energy of 2 kg moving at 1 m/s. > Similarily, the unit of magnetic field, 1 tesla is defined as if an > electric charge of 1 coulomb is moving at a velocity of 1 m/s perpendicular > to a magnetic field of 1 tesla, it experiences a force of 1 newton > perpendicular to both the magnetic field and velocity vectors. > Einstein's famous equation, E = m x c^2 works only in metric: m is in Kg, c > = 3 x 10^8 m/s , E = energy in joules, 1 wh = 3600 (watt-sec or joules). 1 > more reason to dump the stupid moronic idiotic foot/pound system and switch > to metric. > Thus in the metric system, 1 Kg of matter that gets completely converted > into energy, would generate 9 x 10^16 Joules or (9 x 10^16/3600000) = 2.5 x > 10^10 KWH > To apply Einstein's famous equation in non-metric units, the unit of energy > would be defined as the kinetic energy of 2 units of mass moving at a speed > of 1 unit of length/sec and the speed of light in vacuum expressed in units > of length/sec. > Since we already have 1 Volt x 1 Amp x 1 sec = 1 Joule of electrical > energy, for non-metric units, you would have to define another obscure unit > of energi. > > There should be a simple law: in any transaction, if 1 party asks it to be > conducted in metric, the transaction should be conducted in metric. The > offended party should get the right to sue the offender, who refuses to > conduct the transaction in metric for > $1000000/transaction indexed to > inflation. > > if you have better ideas let me know > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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