Spencer Heath Archive

Item 53

Penciling by Heath on notepad paper.

No date

 

Original includes item 303.

 

 

    It is not necessary that an erg-second be composed only of whole and single units each of mass, motion and time, as one dyne per centimeter, times one centimeter per second times one second. It may be highly various in its proportions and compositions, but not quite infinitely so. For since the erg-second as a whole is not infinitely divisible beyond the small magnitude represented by the decimal fraction 6.60 x 10^-27 it follows that there must be the same or a similar limit upon the divisibility of its component parts (just as the three factors of any product cannot be more divisible than the product itself)

     Taking the erg-second in its unitary composition of one dyne (or gram) per each centimeter of motion, times one centimeter of motion per each second of time, times one second of duration or time. It may be indicated thus:

1 dyne x 1 cm per sec x 1 sec

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Commentary by Alvin Lowi, Jr.

VI  B. 1, 4

 

SUBJECT: The ultimate granularity of the unit of Action, — Erg — see inference of the granularity of the abstract and constituent units that may comprise the action or event

REMARKS:  Units are combined inconsistently. Argument for necessary granularity of consistent units is not sound. Better established elsewhere (Item #______)