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Re: Stop using calories?


On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:21:08 -0800 (PST) John Mallinckrodt
<ajmallinckro@CSUPomona.Edu> writes:

When discussing the timescales of stellar evolution, do you have
students do problems using seconds?


We would except that we do not know exactly how many seconds it takes
to equal one light year.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where our normal year equals 3 times 10 E7 seconds and a light year must
be much much shorter that .... unless its a leap year) ( - :