I have a reasonable understanding of how my professional associations at state and federal levels approach the politicians. These people are immensely busy, and you'll be lucky if you'll get 5 minutes of their time to change their minds. Any emails to them go through layers of people who either delete them or pass them on. I can guarantee you 100% that Senator Feinstein will never see your email - you're arguing for the necessity of teaching the metric system to students by providing an incredibly detailed example of unit relationships that most of us on this list may understand, but the public at large and hence your politician won't. Modern political discourse proceeds in soundbites and one-liners, and that's where you should start with your message.
On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 12:23 PM 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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