[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 5:53:23 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2021-12-26 19:36, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> > On Saturday, December 25, 2021 at 6:35:26 PM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote: 
> >> On 2021-12-24 04:40, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> >>> On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote: 
> >>>> In article <00B6DA8D... at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
> >>>> @SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 
> > [...] 
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> F is harder to use because all scientific work is not using it, or 
> anything close to it. Using C makes it very easy to do most scientific 
> work. Many times you are looking at temperature relatives, in which case 
> C and K are identical. And the times you actually have to deal with 
> absolute temperatures, it's just a simple addition and you are done. 
> 
> That *is* easier.

OK, let me re-quote that for readability:

You wrote:
"F is harder to use because all scientific work is not using it, or
anything close to it. Using C makes it very easy to do most scientific
work. Many times you are looking at temperature relatives, in which case C and K are identical. And the times you actually have to deal with absolute temperatures, it's just a simple addition and you are done. That *is* easier."

I'm not aware of anyone in science using C unless they're converting to it for ordinary daily use, like the temperature ranges for drugs. Maybe chemists do. Physicists don't, AFAIK. (Physics is a rather broad field. Maybe the condensed matter people use it, for instance. Not my sub-field.)

Besides, as I've said elsewhere, scientists, especially astronomers, use plenty of non-metric units: astronomical unit, solar mass, parsec, light-year, stellar magnitude, electron volts, feet, atmospheres, G-forces, minutes, days, years, sols, the electric charges of particles, \hbar for angular momentum, the Bohr radius and the Compton wavelength, for distance, all those "Planck units", and I'm sure even more -- none of which are metric units!!! And then there's \alpha, the fine structure constant, which is very close to 1/137. It is a dimensionless number which is the same in all systems of units!

> Johnny

Alan  (^_^(