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echo: science
to: Everett Hertenstein
from: mark lewis
date: 2002-11-26 01:44:34
subject: Weight

DW>> It's the same with the use of the word "weight". If
we want people
 DW>> to  have clearly distinct concepts of mass and gravitational
 DW>> attraction, we  must *insist* that the words describing them be
 DW>> used distinctly.  Tolerating confusion in usage perpetuates
 DW>> confusion of ideas.

 EH> So does an electric current flow from positive to negative or
 EH> vice versa? :-)

>> that would depend on if you are talking to a
technician or an engineer >

)\/(ark

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