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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 4742446" data-attributes="member: 1845">You are using anachronistic and outdated measurements. This is not the Los Alamos era when nuclear/particle/quantum physicist were at the top of the world. In this era of progress and equality, you would better switch to using proper SI units, such as nanojoules and nanograms for measuring elementary particles! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Sorry for the snark - I couldn't help it. I don't actually believe that, of course, after all using electron volts is more natural at that scale than using the official SI units, but I just wanted to illustrate what the condescending attitute that is adopted by many proponents of the metric system sounds like to me, by applying it to something other than the imperial system of measures. I am saying this, in spite of the fact that I use the metric system in daily life and find it intuitive, because in my little country it has long been the standard and I grew up with it and nothing else, but I don't believe we should push to foist the system on other peoples.</blockquote>