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# ^ this
F*** physics and its SI system. c.g.u. all the way!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:15, archived)
# Christ, what is this, the Flat Earth Society?
Luddism Today?

I still have to use Gauss and it annoys me. I also have great fun with codes where everything from temperature to time to distance to acceleration is measured in various powers of megaparsecs.

This also annoys me.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:17, archived)
# It makes my work a lot easier
to have a scale you can actually work with.

(N g^2 mu~B^2)/(3 k~B) = 0.125.

You don't get that kind of somplicity in SI...
You and your 4*pi*10^whatever...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:20, archived)
# Yeah but my work is way harder
You try and sit there and figure out what Newton's constant is in fucking (Mpc)^-2.

Granted, this is nothing to do with Gaussian units but it's important anyway.... Plus I like that 4pi in Maxwell's equations. It makes angular integrations so much more pleasant.

This said, I haven't used units where time and space are different for about five years now. This is marvellous so long as I don't have to work with the real world.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:23, archived)
# That's not work.
That is avoiding actual work by fucking around with numbers.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:26, archived)
# You take that back!
I avoid numbers whenever possible. greek letters are where it's at. I haven't actually put numbers to anything for about 9 months now, and that's the way I like it.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:27, archived)
#
6CO2(g)+6H2O(g)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:29, archived)
# Pah
Chemistry.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:30, archived)
# *rages*
If it wasn't for chemistry, there'd be no chicks in the sciences...
With the exception of medicine.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:33, archived)
# And biology
About 60% girls at my undergrad uni.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:35, archived)
# There's a surprising number in medical physics.
I'm not sure where they came from, because there were hardly any in physics at uni.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:36, archived)
# they are just trying
to snag a doctor and are only there because their naive dads make them go.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:37, archived)
# That's certainly why I'm in it.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:39, archived)
# you're the reason
the dads are naive ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:42, archived)
# I like science
But I'm not called Boris - does that rule me out?
(The Insidious Dr Mayhem ...conquering all on Metaltech.me, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:36, archived)
# Hmm.
*rubs chin.

'Fraid so, Mr non-Boris.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:39, archived)
# Yes, but the real question is how many parsecs can you do the Kessle Run in?
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:20, archived)
# 3.3
there's a shortcut just past the third black hole no-one knows about. it's a reference to how near you can get to the black holes, so you do it in the shortest distance.*



* Bollocks stolen from Wikipedia a while back. George Lucas is an idiot and thinks that parsecs measure time. It is possible that Han Solo works in units where c=1 but, frankly, I fucking doubt it, not least because it would make the Kessle Run about the size of the galaxy.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:25, archived)
# And this is why scientists shouldn't be allowed into the real world.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:26, archived)
# I'm not in the real world
I'm on the internet. The real world is scary.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:31, archived)
# \o/
*Awards Sexy Science Award*
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:30, archived)
# Woo!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:32, archived)