The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear:
> The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic processes in activity referred to a radionuclide
Usually, no radionuclides are involved in web requests.
That's a very good point! And an opportunity for game worlds; extrapolate those blind spots by assuming small planets and planets further out from their stars are more common than what's been confirmed so far.
The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear:
> The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic
processes in activity referred to a radionuclide
There’s an even stronger reason not to given in the same document:
"The special names becquerel, gray and sievert were specifically introduced because of the dangers to human health that might arise from mistakes involving the units reciprocal second… "
Clearly, we should place a radioactive source, a Geiger counter, and a computer in a sealed box. Every time the counter registers a decay, the computer performs a HTTP GET. Thus, we end up with Schrödinger's webserver...
Absolutely not. You could argue this for entry level lectures, but not at the PhD level. PhD is learning how to do original research, how could you separate teaching that from doing that?
Elrond?
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