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# 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)