Wirt Atmar writes

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From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:27 AM
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Subject: Re: OT:Day Lite Savings Time


Isaac writes:

> P.s.  If the group is really bored we can start a discussion on why
the USA
>  is not on the metric system next...

The US is on the metric system -- halfway at least. There are four
fundamental qualities of nature: length, mass, time and charge. All
other qualities are
derived from these four. Two we measure in British units (feet and
pounds;
e.g., torque is expressed as pounds of force at a unit foot's distance)
and two
we measure in SI units (seconds and coulombs; e.g., an ampere is a
coulomb of
charge moving past a fixed point per unit second). Everything else is a
joyous
mixture of the two.
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Isn't a pound a measurement of force (mass * gravity acceleration).  I
thought the English unit of mass is the slug.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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