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From: charles@caen.engin.umich.edu (Charles Jacob Cohen)
Subject: Re: Continuous vs. discrete
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 16:12:27 GMT

In article <10667@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>In article <70401@brunix.UUCP> cs196006@cs.brown.edu (Josh Hendrix) writes:
>>Whoa! Stop the bus! Wait a minute! I am not a physicist, and have only read a
>>few books on 'layman's quantum mechanics', but I've never run across this 
>>assertion...
>
>You'll see the assumption (or convention) made by implication excatly when
>they say "Choose units that make c, h-bar and G equal to one...".  Nobody
>really thinks much of it (yet), but it will relate to a fundamental truth in
>the next major breakthrough in our knowledge of Physics: namely that the
>constants are calibration factors that relate our everyday units to God's
>Units...

Don't you just *love* April Fool's Day! :) - Chuck

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