Re: english schminglish

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 10:47:59 MST


From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>, Sat, 04 Mar 2000:

>Now that Im thinking, I recall having tried to invent a system
>years ago that used the speed of light defined as 1, then
>derive the other units to go with that, but it didnt work out
>too well. Ideas? spike

Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler in _Gravitation_ (the big black doorstop book),
use "c=1 units" throughout their text, I think. (I don't have that book, so
I'm going by memory now)

Amara

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