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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (54481)	10/24/2002 4:26:14 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Or, as Egyptian playright Ali Salem puts it, "trying to understand such hatred with logic is like trying to measure distance in kilograms"" Funny, that's exactly what physicists do. Or more precisely, they measure mass in terms of centimeters. The conversion is done using the speed of light, and Newton's gravitation constant: "A particularly convenient and elegant choice is the system of geometric units, obtained by setting Newton's gravitational constant G, the speed of light c, and Boltzmann's constant k all equal to 1. We can then express any of the following units as a length in centimetres by multiplying by the following conversion factors. Time Mass Energy Electric Charge Temperature fourmilab.ch -- Carl P.S. One gram = 0.7425 x 10^-28 cm, so a kilogram is equal to 0.7425 x 10^-25 cm.