New Si Unit Just Dropped

New Si Unit Just Dropped
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Wikipedia editors really said "we're gonna use the most cursed unit combination possible" and gave us J·Hz⁻¹ for Planck's constant. Like, yeah technically a joule times a second (since Hz⁻¹ = s) gives you joule-seconds, which is correct for action... but why does it look like energy divided by frequency? Because it literally is! E = hν means h = E/ν, so dimensionally this checks out.

But let's be real: everyone just writes J·s like normal people. Using Hz⁻¹ instead of seconds is the physics equivalent of ordering a "medium iced latte with oat milk" by saying "I'll have a 473 mL beverage containing espresso diluted in frozen H₂O crystals suspended in plant-based emulsion derived from Avena sativa." Technically correct? Yes. Absolutely unhinged? Also yes.

Wikipedia's just flexing their unit conversion muscles while the rest of us are like "s is right there, my dudes."

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