Hi,
Willful stupidity always upsets me. But, given the rest of your post, I'm beginning to think yours isn't willful. I'm glad to see that my posts aren't the only things you are incapable of reading with any degree of comprehension.
The first paragraph of your link refutes almost all of your nonsense claims. Thank you. Let me quote it with some added emphasis in an attempt to aid your comprehension (probably a futile effort, but someone else might benefit from it).
"In October 1901, a very successful Italian scientist and engineer Giovanni Giorgi showed at the congress of the Associazione Elettrotecnica Italiana (A.E.I.) in Rome that a coherent system of units could be achieved by adding an electric unit to the three mechanical units (centimetre, gram, second) of the existing CGS system. The event can be considered as the birth of what is now known as the International System of Units, or SI. (Visit the IEC SI Zone for a full explanation of International System of Units.)"
First, so much for your claims that the cgs system was not used, or even rarely used. If it were some obscure system, why would a "very successful Italian scientist and engineer" pick it over other metric systems?
Second, note that what he did was show how an electrical unit could be added to the existing units. In no way did he change the existing units. The loose units that he cleaned up where the electrical units. Using modern terminology, the volt, the ampere, the ohm, the henry, the farad, the weber, and probably some I never heard of or can't remember were all defined by some operational definition (and sometimes more than one, hence electrostatic units and electrodynamic units formed two varieties of the cgs system -- both of which were metric systems). A common story is that in the USA, Ohm's law was illegal. The ohm, the volt, and the amp were defined individually. The result was that V = IR didn't work.
Third, if he added an electrical unit to the cgs system, and that "can be considered as the birth of what is now known as the International System of Units", then isn't it apparent that the gram was indeed the basic unit from which the kilogram was derived?
Please, quit. Not only are you ignorant of the subject, incapable of forming a logical argument, and unable to read with comprehension, but even your supporting links prove my point, not yours.
--Pete
(09-15-2010, 11:25 AM)Zenda Wrote: You are loosing your temper again, so I will add just one more thing.
Willful stupidity always upsets me. But, given the rest of your post, I'm beginning to think yours isn't willful. I'm glad to see that my posts aren't the only things you are incapable of reading with any degree of comprehension.
(09-15-2010, 11:25 AM)Zenda Wrote: The French are much to blame, according to your tirade. But the creator of the rationalized MKSA sytem, which was the direct precursor to SI, was an Ialian named Giorgi. He rationalized a coherent system out of 'loose' units, and is viewed as one of the greater contributors to SI.
http://www.iec.ch/about/history/articles...giorgi.htm
The first paragraph of your link refutes almost all of your nonsense claims. Thank you. Let me quote it with some added emphasis in an attempt to aid your comprehension (probably a futile effort, but someone else might benefit from it).
"In October 1901, a very successful Italian scientist and engineer Giovanni Giorgi showed at the congress of the Associazione Elettrotecnica Italiana (A.E.I.) in Rome that a coherent system of units could be achieved by adding an electric unit to the three mechanical units (centimetre, gram, second) of the existing CGS system. The event can be considered as the birth of what is now known as the International System of Units, or SI. (Visit the IEC SI Zone for a full explanation of International System of Units.)"
First, so much for your claims that the cgs system was not used, or even rarely used. If it were some obscure system, why would a "very successful Italian scientist and engineer" pick it over other metric systems?
Second, note that what he did was show how an electrical unit could be added to the existing units. In no way did he change the existing units. The loose units that he cleaned up where the electrical units. Using modern terminology, the volt, the ampere, the ohm, the henry, the farad, the weber, and probably some I never heard of or can't remember were all defined by some operational definition (and sometimes more than one, hence electrostatic units and electrodynamic units formed two varieties of the cgs system -- both of which were metric systems). A common story is that in the USA, Ohm's law was illegal. The ohm, the volt, and the amp were defined individually. The result was that V = IR didn't work.
Third, if he added an electrical unit to the cgs system, and that "can be considered as the birth of what is now known as the International System of Units", then isn't it apparent that the gram was indeed the basic unit from which the kilogram was derived?
Please, quit. Not only are you ignorant of the subject, incapable of forming a logical argument, and unable to read with comprehension, but even your supporting links prove my point, not yours.
--Pete
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