Unit Dispositions

I was just browsing through my physics text the previous day, trying to imbibe some of the diminuendos and crescendos of this lackluster and insipid subject (My apologies to the ardent lovers of physics). Half awake and half asleep; perfect for my peculiar and weird thoughts to take shape. I realized that the most the units, let alone constants, used are names of the guys who put in a lot of effort and toil to make our lives miserable.

To state a few: we have the Ampere for electric current, Becquerel for radioactivity, Coulombs for charge, Faraday for capacitance, Henry for inductance, Hertz for frequency, Joules for energy, Newton for force, Ohm for resistance, Pascal for pressure, Tesla for magnetic field, Volt for voltage, Watt for power, Weber for magnetic flux, and the Kelvin, Celsius and Fahrenheit for temperature, etc. etc.

What I find incredible, is that I don’t think any other unit would satisfy the concepts in concern. Maybe we just become accustomed to their usage and it becomes second nature. Still, I think Newton is the perfect unit of force, and Joules for energy. I don’t think it’d be elegant to measure something in Johns and Jacks, but maybe in Earnests….
With more developments in the field of science, new unit measures will surely arise, and the world must have scientists with apt and apposite names to satisfy the panache and elegance of the art of assigning units. So think twice before naming your child Bob or sumthin!