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[Roberto]

Frank, I've read your Universal.pdf document and I thought it interesting too, but I will justify it and I think you will not be very satisfied with the answer.

But first, let me say that the critics I will make are only to help you for I see you have a talent and with experience you will do much more interesting things.

The reason why the scientific community didn't seem very excited with your manuscript is because systems of unities in physics are really arbitrary. The SI system is just based on useful unities: the meter, the kilogramm, the second, are unities used for a long time and, today, they are indeed defined with reference to more fundamental processes in nature. The meter today is defined with reference to the speed of light and the second with respect to a wavelength related to a transition energy in the cesium atom.

But physicists at work do not pay to much attention to units, because they are just conventions. In Quantum Field Theory they do not use the SI system, they use a system named Natural Unities where the speed of light and the Planck constant are set to 1 and every other variable comes in unitites of energy. It has nothing fundamental, it is just convenient to work with that unities, as is convenient to a man in his house to measure the milk in liters or the flour in kilograms.

The ultimate goal of physics is to have a theory with only one adjustable parameter: the system of unities. Your work is interesting but has nothing very new or that may be very useful. I'm not trying to be agressive and I hope you take these critics as a kind of help.