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Wilczek responds on absolute units

June 2006, page 12

In my essay "On Absolute Units, II: Challenges and Responses" (PHYSICS TODAY, January 2006, page 10), in the first column, the ratio between the fundamental mass scales in strong and Planck units should read Mstrong/MPlanck ≡ (√mp2G/ℏc).

In the second column, the ratio between the fundamental mass scales in atomic and Planck units should read Matomic/MPlanck ≡ (√me2G/ℏc).

Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge

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