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r/Physics • u/DOI_borg • Feb 15 '16
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In science it is, but less so in engineering.
12 u/ben_jl Feb 15 '16 Is that just a cultural thing or do they have a rationale for not using the metric system? 9 u/ChaosCon Computational physics Feb 16 '16 Engineers don't like units. Engineers really don't like units. 3 u/eetsumkaus Feb 16 '16 that's weird. I thought that was theoretical physicists, speaking as someone who had half his physics classes in CGS... 1 u/quantumqic Feb 16 '16 Nah they don't like constants. Units are good.
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Is that just a cultural thing or do they have a rationale for not using the metric system?
9 u/ChaosCon Computational physics Feb 16 '16 Engineers don't like units. Engineers really don't like units. 3 u/eetsumkaus Feb 16 '16 that's weird. I thought that was theoretical physicists, speaking as someone who had half his physics classes in CGS... 1 u/quantumqic Feb 16 '16 Nah they don't like constants. Units are good.
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Engineers don't like units. Engineers really don't like units.
3 u/eetsumkaus Feb 16 '16 that's weird. I thought that was theoretical physicists, speaking as someone who had half his physics classes in CGS... 1 u/quantumqic Feb 16 '16 Nah they don't like constants. Units are good.
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that's weird. I thought that was theoretical physicists, speaking as someone who had half his physics classes in CGS...
1 u/quantumqic Feb 16 '16 Nah they don't like constants. Units are good.
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Nah they don't like constants. Units are good.
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u/Sean1708 Feb 15 '16
In science it is, but less so in engineering.