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Re:Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could ... by trenchgun on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:10AM (#39379659)
>the unitary quantity is a conveinience.

Ah right, so basically its just a convenience notation? We could as well say that proton has 3 and electron is -3 charge?

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Re:Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could ... by feoren on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:00PM (#39386863)
> We could as well say that proton has 3 and electron is -3 charge?

Absolutely! In fact that would have been much more convenient, since the "quantum of charge" appears to be 1/3 of the charge of the proton. All units of charge we've ever observed seem to be integer multiples of 1/3e.

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Re:Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could ... by nyssos on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:40AM (#39395331)
Yes, individual dimensioned quantities are arbitrary: only the relationships between them have physical meaning.
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