Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: a cautionary tale on how to use "units" wrongly Re: testing out this Voltage as electric field Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <17c6c6b8-0872-4ad2-9234-1133d9ae718f@googlegroups.com> <4b8ac999-1af6-42ac-8cda-dce7e9ce08a6@googlegroups.com> <4838e9e2-b047-4ee1-99bd-21210930cac4@googlegroups.com> <775a3a1a-4c5c-49c9-bd11-73db30657a5b@googlegroups.com> <183dbffe-28f6-43e5-84d3-4b180de9bd76@googlegroups.com> <5973db95-8aeb-4d06-a3cc-7fa5392a300d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1477334589 13758 192.74.137.71 (24 Oct 2016 18:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:43:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:602342 Archimedes Plutonium writes: >On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 1:22:47 PM UTC-5, Archimedes Plutonium wrote: >> On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 1:12:26 PM UTC-5, Michael Moroney wrote: >> (snipped) >> >> > >> > Yes, you can't read too much into the meaning of a unit's dimensions. >> > Force and torque have the same units (kg m^2/s^2) but are definitely not >> > the same thing. >> > >> > I believe, but am not sure, that the electric and magnetic fields of a >> > photon are in a constant ratio, and if you divide its electric field >> > strength by its magnetic field strength, you get the velocity of the >> > photon, or c. I'll have to look that up. >> >> For once you are sounding like a normal human, not a subhuman science >> wannabe. So maybe there is hope for you failures of physics, but I >> would not hold my breathe for that to happen. >Well, hold on, I skimmed the above and did not recognize your (kg >m^2/s^2) immediately. So, when is acceleration that of m^2/s^2, when it >is m/s^2 I never said acceleration was m^2/s^2. I never even mentioned acceleration. I was talking about torque and energy. Typo: I wrote force when I should have written energy. >Again, you fail The failure (in this case, to read correctly) is all yours.