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Originally Posted by silentstriker
I think we're arguing semantics here. When CDM asked and I said physical constant, I was referring to the 'meaning', rather than a specific number. Obviously (many) constants are things that we just need to fudge our equations with to make them work, and then assign probably 'meanings' to them later on, but in other cases, it is still a fundamental quantity that means something. G might be 'chucked in', but c has a much more concrete meaning.
BTW, natural units FTL.
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that's true, but the point remains that they're rather arbitrary. the concept is more important than the fact they are constants, in a mathematical sense.
and i see you're no particle physicist
"****, i couldn't be bothered dealing with all these annoying constants, let's just make life easy and make them all 1"