Talk:Geometrized unit system/Archive 1

Archive 1

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Should this be moved to geometrized unit (singular)? Sometimes the plural is appropriate in an article title; is this such a case? Michael Hardy 15:46, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I moved it to geometrized unit system, for in this case the plural was used to identify a category. Thanks for the comment.

8πG=1

Isn't sometimes 8πG set to 1? --Pjacobi 11:05, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

There actually are several different systems involved here. Your "sometimes" and the "sometimes" starting the second paragaph of the article are clues to that fact. Gene Nygaard 11:16, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Yes, 8πG is another common convention, as is 16πG=1. This is problematic. My impression is that the most common modern convention is 8πG=1, but I could be mistaken. –Joke137 18:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

But what about Wald, General relativity, Appendix F, which uses c = G =1? This is probably the most widely used graduate textbook on general relativity in the English-speaking world. Can anyone cite a major textbook which used either of the other two conventions mentioned by Joke137? ---CH (talk) 01:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Students beware

I extensively edited the August 2006 version of this article and had been monitoring it for bad edits, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.

Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive. I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions, although I hope for the best.

Good luck in your search for information, regardless!---CH 23:52, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

MKS charge units

I believe there should be a entry for converting SI charge units in the official conversion table.

Using google calculator, I get for the conversion constant:

${\sqrt {G/4\pi \epsilon _{0}c^{4}}}$ = sqrt(G / (4 * Pi * electric constant * c^4)) = 8.61667791 × 10-18 m / coulomb

question: what source should be used for constant values?

Pervect 23:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits

I've made the edits indicated above, having gotten no comments. The conversion table from Wald is for cgs units, unfortunately. This would only matter for charge and related electrical units. I've marked up the table to indicate it's a cgs table as the simplest course of action to fix the issue.

consistency checks:

1 statcolumb * sqrt(G)/c^2 -> 2.87 * 10^-25 cm = 2.87* 10^-27 m

1 coulomb -> 8.62 * 10^-18 m (from MKS table)

1 statcolumb / 1 coulomb = 3.33*10^-10

consistent with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statcoulomb This is incosistent with the wiki cgs page, however!

more consistency checks:

charge of electron = 1.381*10^-34 cm (MTW back cover)

charge of electron = 1.60*10^-19 coulomb * 8.62*10^-18 m/coulomb = 1.38*10^-36 m = 1.38*10^-34 cm

Pervect 22:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)