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- Is this as much nonsense as I think it is?
I know, I know, I'm committing the cardinal sin of putting any stock in the technobabble of a TV show, but this one seems egregious.
Lewis (English WhoDunnit-in-Oxford on Britbox) Season 8 Episode 2 "The Lions of Nemea" had an astro physics professor who said this:
"... and so we see that one AU cubed is equal to G times the mass of the Sun times one year squared times four pi squared...."
Not only can I not imagine what this could possibly be referring to but the units don't even match.
m3 = N · kg · s2
m3 = kg2 · m
(Did I get that right? Also: Sorry, I just cannot manage LaTeX)
Lewis (English WhoDunnit-in-Oxford on Britbox) Season 8 Episode 2 "The Lions of Nemea" had an astro physics professor who said this:
"... and so we see that one AU cubed is equal to G times the mass of the Sun times one year squared times four pi squared...."
Not only can I not imagine what this could possibly be referring to but the units don't even match.
m3 = N · kg · s2
m3 = kg2 · m
(Did I get that right? Also: Sorry, I just cannot manage LaTeX)