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brydustin
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Hi, I know nearly nothing about physics, I'm a mathematician working on a computer program.
Anyway, I have to write a program and my boss suggested that I use atomic units and that at the end of the program I can "scale up" to natural units if desired. I tried to read up on these units, but they intuitively make no sense they just seem artificial and I don't know how to handle it. For example, what are the atomic units for:
h_bar, length, time, temperature, and energy.
And do they really have "units" attached or are the unitless numbers -- I read somewhere that physicists do this to also blur the lines between time and lenght... all seems strange to me, any help, please!
Anyway, I have to write a program and my boss suggested that I use atomic units and that at the end of the program I can "scale up" to natural units if desired. I tried to read up on these units, but they intuitively make no sense they just seem artificial and I don't know how to handle it. For example, what are the atomic units for:
h_bar, length, time, temperature, and energy.
And do they really have "units" attached or are the unitless numbers -- I read somewhere that physicists do this to also blur the lines between time and lenght... all seems strange to me, any help, please!