Clemens J.M. Lasance Editor-in-Chief, Fall 2010 Issue Some time ago I devoted my editorial to the problems caused by the veeerrryyy slow adherence to the use of SI units to which the U.S. committed itself in 1872. When talking globalization we should speak the same scientific language, and when there are conflicts of interest, logical reasoning should prevail to decide upon … [Read more...]
On The Hate/Love Relationship Between The U.S. And SI
Last year I devoted some words on correligion: the religious belief in the usefulness of correlations to solve real-life problems. I forgot to mention that correlations have one big advantage; they are dimensionless meaning that they are the same for everyone, including people from outside the US. Unfortunately this is not the case for most common units, and the struggle for … [Read more...]
