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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: HPilot who wrote (19937)1/31/2008 10:00:32 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
Stupid Neolib thinks work can only be in Joules.

I've never said that. Work can be measured in any units which have the following:

mass x distance x distance / time x time

In SI W = F x D in units of kg x m x m / s x s

You cannot lop of any of the terms, but your are completely free to define scale factors for any of them and make up a new name for your work units, which will only differ by a scale factor from all other correct units of work. I could measure time in units called Hugh Time which I define as 2.71 Hughs / second. So I get a conversion of 2.71 x 2.71 = 7.344 between such a definition (time squared) and regular seconds2 when used in work conversions. That is the sort of differences which are fine. But trying to drop or add one multiple of time is not. That does not work.

I guess this explains how the Egyptians built the pyramids so easily, pushing large stones weighing thousands of deben thousands of cubits was not work!

Look moron, tell me how much work it takes to push a 1 lb weight for 1 foot horizontally. Or use a 1 kg mass and 1 meter if you prefer. I certainly can't tell you, not without many more assumptions. It could be very near zero, or very near infinite. But I very easily can tell you the amount of work for a 1 Newton Force acting through 1 meter. That is 1 Joule. If the 1 Newton Force acted through 1 meter in 1 sec then there was a Power of 1 Watt for that 1 Second. But please do tell me the work for pushing the weight through the distance. I'm very eager to see what you come up with.
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