Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > The whole paper must be ignored because the authors put their units in > square brackets : [W] etc >
Motl actually said that! Amazing. Quote: "For example, these cranks haven't understood the concept of units in physics. All equations for dimensionful variables contain things like [W] for units even though there is absolutely no reason why general, non-numerical equations in physics should come with particular units." Many old fashioned Europeans use brackets for all units. So does Arata, and so do many Japanese publishers of popular science magazines (but not journals). NIST says to do it the 'Merican way: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html - Jed
