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Haha, wow. And he really has it in for the candela too. Thanks for pointing to this, I would never have thought to look here, but it's an excellent read.
by camtarn 2y ago
Haha, wow. And he really has it in for the candela too. Thanks for pointing to this, I would never have thought to look here, but it's an excellent read.
- photonthug 2y ago// Alan's editorializing: // I think the candela is a scam, and I am completely // opposed to it. Some good-for-nothing lighting "engineers" // or psychologists probably got this perceptually-rigged // abomination into the whole otherwise scientific endeavor. // // What an unbelievably useless and stupid unit. Is light // at 540.00000001 x 10^12 Hz (or any other frequency) zero // candela? Is this expected to be an impulse function at // this frequency? Oh, wait, the Heisenberg Uncertainty // Principle makes this impossible. No mention for // correction (ideally along the blackbody curve) for other // wavelengths? Damn you, 16th CGPM! Damn you all to hell! //