Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003
12:08:34 -0500
Dear Stibelli,
Ah, but the
fundamental units one chooses and uses, IS an option. Totally an
option. One part of physics already uses a physics model with only a
single fundamental unit.
Just check out the
second and third editions of Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics. He
does discuss this sort of thing, and he does rather strongly point it
out, for the benefit of electrodynamicists who tend to be too welded to
one system of units and one model of physics.
When you make a
physics model (perfectly permissible) using just the joule as the only
fundamental unit, then indeed time does become totally a function of
energy. No different from mass being totally a function of energy. And
anything else.
Best wishes,
Tom Bearden
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