Should the Unit of Momentum Be Named After Emmy Noether?

[fresh_42]

Btw., I propose to call $\dfrac{s^2}{kg\cdot m}$ a Meitner:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/collection-of-science-jokes-p2.847743/page-8#post-5717287

 

[Orthoceras]

In 1888, a committee of the British Association proposed "bole" as the name for the unit of momentum. (link)

 

[fresh_42]

In 1888, a committee of the British Association proposed "bole" as the name for the unit of momentum. (link)

Bole is (was?) already in use, so it's not really an alternative.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bole_(Einheit)

 

[Orthoceras]

That unit name is unknown in the English wikipedia. I am not sure I would trust the statement in the German wikipedia. It does not seem likely that the British Association in 1888 was unaware of a unit name conflict. In contrast, they said the uncouthness of some of these terms was put forward as a reason for their adoption, as their unfamiliarity would compel closer attention ands lead to their being easily remembered.
link

 

[fresh_42]

I am not sure I would trust the statement in the German wikipedia.

I cannot see why someone would invent this. Criticizing the source is cheap, but that doesn't make it wrong.

They say that Bole was used in Denmark https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol where it was written Bol and in the neighboring German region for farmland, and in Scottland for volume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firlot where they wrote it Boll. A bole measured grain in England: https://www.sizes.com/units/bole.htm

However, you can doubt every source on the internet I ever could mention.

But they noted their references

A Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857.
Page 233.

and also that it was proposed for momentum:

Latimer Clark.
A Dictionary of Metric and Other Useful Measures.
London: E & F.N. Spon, 1891.

 

[robphy]

On an AAPT mailing list, I was alerted to
https://www.change.org/p/honor-emmy-noether-with-the-unit-for-momentum

 

[Hornbein]

Sounds like the invitation to yet another joke about American units.

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So the car crashed with almost 42 ke or 42 kE? Poor Emmy will forever be associated with crashes of cars, trains, and airplanes. But a Newton is a Noether per second is funny in a way.

Football fields. Don't forget football fields. Then there's the distance from New York to Los Angeles, the length of a home run, and the momentum of a Little League fastball.