From: Luiz Pellanda (pellanda_at_mac.com)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 16:02:26 PDT
Hi you there:
By the way, "Newton" is a metric unit for force...
Kuhn used to say that a new paradigm only becomes generally accepted
when the "olds" die...
Brazil has many favors to thanks Napoleon: by invading Portugal, he
caused the Imperial Family to move to Brazil which became the capital
of Portuguese Empire.
Then he pushed the metric system. *System* that was adopted in Brazil
in XIX century, so by now metrics rules...
Salute!
-- Luiz E. Pellanda Porto Alegre http://www.portoweb.com.br/pessoal/pellanda "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces" (Murphy) (subscribed also by G.W.Bush) -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
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