australopithecus said:Thank you for proving my criticism well founded.
Your criticism is noted.
Now, do you understand the difference between 5 kg and 5 m, yes or no?
If you answered yes, then please continue to the next question.
Are you a physicist?
Master_Ghost_Knight said:So by the same logic there also isn't such a thing a flow of electric charge (a.k.a. electric current) given that it is measure in Coulomb/second and Coulomb=/=Kg.>< V >< said:A unit of flow, kilograms / second
A unit of flux, Watts / meter^2
Indirectly taking the position that two numbers have the same physical meaning when they have different Standard International units is what makes you science lay folk.
Just one problem, the name flow has nothing to do with a physical transport of mass but rather a fundamental mathematical property that relates this fields.
Bitch please, just admit that you are done. Stop flogging the dead horse.
Ya know, I've been accused of being pedantic, and I'm forced to be, exactly because of people like you Master_Ghost_Knight.
Notice I said "A unit". Notice I did not say "The unit". Because there are other ways to express these units, whether it be through prefixes or the context of the problem.
Clearly, flow of charge is different contextually than the flow of water. This enters the equation through density. And density can represent all sorts of things. Whether it be density of mass, density of charge, density of energy, density of atheists, and this results in a different final unit, kg/s, C/s, J/s, atheists/s.
Notice that energy flow, J/s is otherwise known as Watts.
Thus, flow can have the unit W.
Notice that flux has a unit W/m^2.
Since W does not equal W/m^2, flow can never equate to flux.