Universal units of magnetism, mechanics and temperature

✍ Scribed by A.T. Gresky

• Book ID: 103081596
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 720 KB
• Volume: 268
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(59)90523-x

✦ Synopsis

The ever-increasing accuracy in measurenaents of fundamental quantities may eventually lead to the establishment of five highly precise "universal units" of magnetic intensity, mass, length, time and temperature. Speculations on the current possibilities for the selection and use of such units are presented. It is proposed that these hypothetical units may permit the revelation of many new universal constants of major importance to fundamental theory and to causal resolutions of several stubborn mysteries of physics.

Suggested practical values for new units are: magnetic intensity unit M = 1.84253 gauss; mass unit m --217.699 grams; length unit r = 1.61562 centimeters ; time unit t = 0.538912 sec.; temperature unit °T = 0,0708681 degree Absolute. * Note that each of these quantities may be converted to oersted units by the equality, Era. 3 gauss = g. cm. ~ sec. ~ oersted -1.