Completing the International System of units with c==μ=ε=kB=NA=1

Abstract

A drawback of the new SI is that by fixing the value of the elementary charge e, the vacuum magnetic permeability μ and impedance Z=μ c are no longer fixed, but get written proportionately to α. All electrical units get dependent on α (and might even, conceivably, vary with time). This may be cured by embedding the SI in a new framework in which the "fundamental constants of nature" are fixed and equal to 1, i.e. c==μ=ε=Z= kB=NA=1. The metre, joule, and kilogram get identified as 1 m = (1/c) s = (1/299 792 458) s, 1 J = (1/) s-1= (2π /6.626\;070\;15) × 1034\ s-1 and 1 kg = (c2/)\ s-1= 0.852 ... ×\ 1051\ s-1. Fixing μ= μ N/A2=1 provides 1 A = μ N =\!μ c/\ s-1 and 1 C = μ c/ = 1.890 ...×\ 1018 , with e = 1.602 ... ×\ 10-19\ C also equal to 4πα = 0.3028 ... . All SI units can be defined in terms of the second, with the coulomb, ohm and weber dimensionless, and the mole identified as the very large Avogadro number.

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