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Re: ? ? ?

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics, sci.math
Subject Re: ? ? ?
Date 2024-03-25 07:57 +0100
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Am 23.03.2024 um 18:21 schrieb TReena Pooja Kishan:
> Thomas Heger wrote:
>
>>>> I always distinguish between a quantity and the measurement of this
>>>> quantity. E.g. 'length' is a (physical) quantity and is measured in
>>>> meters.
>>>
>>> no, you don't. The meter is the length, not the space, which is a
>>> dimension. You use space to count lengths, here meters.
>>
>> I actually do, because 'meter' is the name of a unit, which is used to
>> measure 'length'.
>
> ludicrous. The meter is a length in itself, and without space you have no
> meter. Undrestand this, space and time are not quantities you measure. You
> use them to measure something else. For instance, your government is a
> whore. They never stop stealing from other countries with that fake

No, units are used, if you measure something.

This 'something' is what you measure (here: a distance), while the units 
(here: meters) belong to the measurement.

A device as simple as a ruler can measure some length. But the ruler or 
the inscriptions on it are not length.


TH

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