Talk:Dyne
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- Perhaps this org merits its own article, and a disambig link from this article? Ian Cairns 21:39, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Obsolete or not?
On 2 Feb, I changed the first sentence to say that the CGS system is "obsolete". This was reverted four days later. However, I think it is important to put the dyne / CGS into perspective, so now I changed "cgs" to "cgs, a predecessor of the modern SI". Hope that variant will become consensus.
Apart from that, the edit that reverted my edit had this comment:
- CGS units are still widely used in astronomy and astrophysics (they are not obsolete)
From what I'm reading on the CGS page, "widely used" is an overstatement--it's more like "occasionally encountered". So in order to provide context for further edits, here are some quotes from the CGS article:
- "The centimeter-gram-second system [...] was replaced by the MKS"
- "the CGS system never gained wide general use outside the field of electrodynamics and was gradually superseded internationally"
- "CGS units are still occasionally encountered in older technical literature, especially in the United States in the fields of electrodynamics and astronomy".
--193.99.145.162 11:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, presumably you've seen the commentary on the talk page over at CGS as well, but I'm a graduate student in physics at the moment, and I would say based on my experience that CGS is definitely not obsolete. My classes use CGS almost exclusively; moreover, so does my research -- it's still (as far as I can tell) the standard for describing things like surface tension. Maybe I'm just a dinosaur before my time ;-) Chalkdusted 11:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
