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>the unitary quantity is a conveinience. Ah right, so basically its just a convenience notation? We could as well say that proton has 3 and electron is -3 char
by trenchgun 3y ago
>the unitary quantity is a conveinience.
Ah right, so basically its just a convenience notation? We could as well say that proton has 3 and electron is -3 charge?
- feoren 3y ago> We could as well say that proton has 3 and electron is -3 charge? Absolutely! In fact that would have been much more convenient, since the "quantum of charge" appears to be 1/3 of the charge of the proton. All units of charge we've ever observed seem to be integer multiples of 1/3e.
- nyssos 3y agoYes, individual dimensioned quantities are arbitrary: only the relationships between them have physical meaning.