I agree with your general sentiment, but I have to refute a couple of points
you made:
*The metric act of 1866 ALLOWS trading in metric; it does not "prohibit
refusing to trade in metric." A court may not abdicate its adjudication role
because a contract is metric.
*The FPLA amendment passed and was signed in 1992 by George H.W. Bush, taking
effect in 1994. The delayed effective date was to avoid unreasonable burden on
manufacturers. It generally requires dual labeling, both metric and Customary,
on MOST consumer goods, but there are specific exceptions, items where each
package is a random weight (typically meat) or the item is weighed at retail
(typically produce and deli) where only Customary is required, metric is
optional as a supplement (and rarely used). There are other special cases for
product not covered by FPLA. Wine and spirits must be metric, while beer must
be Customary, etc.
On Saturday, December 26, 2020, 10:41:55 AM EST, gct <[email protected]>
wrote:
you asked a very good question. I don't have children, i have met people who
went thru US school system and don't know what is a km.
we need a law that explicitly requires teaching the following before
obscurantist foot/pound
US congress passed pl 39-183, the metric act of 1866, which went into
effect in 1866 and prohibits refusing to trade in metric and prohibits
refusing to accept a court document because it is in metric.
US congress passed the fair labeling act of 1994, which was signed by
president Clinton, requires metric units on all labels.
US is member of la convention du metre.
From a scientific viewpoint 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. ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE IS NO RELATION BETWEEN AMPERE, VOLT,
JOULE AND THE STUPID OBSCURANTIST FOOT/POUND. If you use the volt as a unit
of electrical voltage, you are using the metric system, 1 volt = 1
Joule/Coulomb and the joule is derived from meter, kilogram and second,
THERE IS NO RELATION BETWEEN AMPERE, VOLT, JOULE AND THE STUPID
OBSCURANTIST FOOT/POUND.
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.
1 Newton is the force that accelerates 1 kilogram by 1 m/(s^2). THERE IS NO
RELATION BETWEEN Tesla, Newton AND THE STUPID
OBSCURANTIST FOOT/POUND.
Einstein's famous equation, E = m x c^2 works only in metric and other
coherent systems: 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 energy.
As a direct consequence of Maxwell's equations, the electric and magnetic
fields of an electromagnetic wave traveling in vacuum, which are 3
dimensional vectors, are perpendicular to each other and the ratio of their
magnitude E/B = c , the speed of light in vacuum 299792458 m/s so if the
magnetic field B=1 tesla,the electric field E=299792458 newton/coulomb.
it is important to shove facts of science in the face of obscurantist ignorants.
i am thinking about putting a petition on change.org .
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for listening.
Thank you very much. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to
contact me.
Thanks, Ghaouar Camij Toschian, [email protected]
2500 Durant # 310, Berkeley, California 94704, Rotating Outage Block 50
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your email.
Please address all communications to me in metric only and use international
date standard (year/month/day or day/month/year)
Visualize that the smoke of cigarettes is unpleasant to other people.
Visualize that peoples' civic duties do NOT include having to breathe the smoke
from cigarettes.
Visualize that astrologers, fortune tellers, tarot card readers, psychics and
palm readers are Crooks, Fools or Both.
Visualize using the Metric System.
Visualize that Skepticism is a virtue and that faith is NOT.
Visualize taking the stairs instead of the elevators.
Visualize walking instead of driving.
Den sön 13 dec. 2020 13:01J McClellan <[email protected]> skrev:
> Does anyone know that status of our kids learning the SI in American
> public schools and what grade it might be introduced?
> GO METRIC, AMERICA!
> The World Is Waiting...
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