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From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
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Subject: Re: Scalar waves
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 23:27:54 +0200
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wThomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag000004, 04.05.2024 um 17:38 schrieb Ross Finlayson:
> 
> > Consider the length of a body vis-a-vis the distance it
> > travels: both in units of length, yet distance as only
> > after a derivation of all the higher orders of acceleration
> > and deceleration whether it results a distance at rest, or,
> > a distance marking motion, that the other factors of the
> > dimensional analysis, go along with it, though algebraically,
> > at each point dimensionless.
> > 
> 
> A physical system has attributes.
> 
> These attributes can be measured.
> 
> The measure of this measurement has a dimension and a value.
> 
> 
> The pyhsical system is space in this case.
> 
> In this space we have two points, which are somehow identifiable.
> 
> The distance is the length of a connecting streight line.
> 
> This length has the dimension 'length', which is quantified by 
> approriate units (meters in case of SI-units).
> 
> So the measure of that distance has a certain value (say 2) and certain
> units (meters) and a certain dimension (length).

Again, how would you go about measuring a dimension?
(as opposed to defining it)

Jan