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I can't stop laughing at the first entry and this simple joke: > he gained international notoriety for his claims that [...] mass and time are equivalent. (Wit
by ericghildyal 8mo ago
I can't stop laughing at the first entry and this simple joke:
> he gained international notoriety for his claims that [...] mass and time are equivalent. (With regard to the second claim, it was suggested on the "sci.astro.amateur" newsgroup that his demise be observed with a gram of silence.)
- flopsamjetsam 8mo agoABIAN was always my friends and my favourite, from our time on Usenet! His all caps .sig with "equivalence of MASS and TIME" is something I will always treasure.
- direwolf20 8mo agowith some not–so–subtle changes, maybe he was onto something: angular momentum has the same units as energy.
- kazinator 8mo agoAngular momentum has energy x time units. These unit equivalences have to be carefully interpreted. Like when things are multipled, are they in the same direction? Torque has the same units as work: force x distance, i.e. energy. But the force is perpendicular to the distance; it's completely different, and not a simple scalar value: torque is a vector with an orientation in space. Moving something against friction over 10cm, and using a 10cm bar to apply leverage, are entirely different.
- direwolf20 8mo agoI meant torque, of course :)
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