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To: jwalsh07
Re 123: in arbitrary units

There you go. You remember when a Mars probe failed because some idiots at NASA used inches&feet instead of centimeters? Cost us taxpayers $300 million.

Arbitrary units?--with this lame argument, you can 'prove' that an inch is a mile; that a kilowatt is a pound; that a calorie is a volt; that blood pressure is miles per gallon.

Your whole post is just silly.

130 posted on 08/01/2006 5:26:09 PM PDT by thomaswest (I just believe in one fewer god than you do.)
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To: thomaswest
Oh without a doubt! Weinberg, Penrose and Turner are simply dolts when compared to the brilliant, if seldom quoted, thomaswest.
133 posted on 08/01/2006 5:30:22 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: thomaswest; jwalsh07; Ichneumon
Arbitrary units?

In fairness, it appears that the two numbers are a ratio, so the units cancel. The assertion seems to be that if a specific value were different by one part in 10^120, then life would be impossible. As Ichneumon details in #104 this doesn't prove anything even if true, but it's not unreasonable on its face.

139 posted on 08/01/2006 5:34:39 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent
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To: thomaswest

"Arbitrary units" make me think of "pyramid inches".


171 posted on 08/01/2006 6:34:22 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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