Planck Measurements: Meaning or Trite Observation?

Gaz1982 · Jun 9, 2015

Does anyone here ascribe any particular broader meaning to them?

Is that they represent indivisible units a consensus of sorts?

Do they have real meaning or are they a kind of trite observation?

Vanadium 50 · Jun 9, 2015

The are most certainly not some sort of indivisible unit. The Planck resistance is about 30 ohms. Larger and smaller resistances occur in nature - or the hardware store.

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