Posted by: tero dai May 13, 2006
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Dimensional analysis can only indicate if there might be an error but it cannot be used to provide a robust argument why something is false.
Here is the problem with tegor's work.
Notice that he uses r=nL. Now, greater the value of L less is the value of n, right? I will use this fact later.
If you plug in K=rho/n^2 then according to his derivation you get,
rho/(n^2 L). Now, although nL is equal to a constant radius 'r', greater the value of L, less is the value of n and because of that you get a higher value of R in the derived 'formula'. So, R does increase when L increases. cool?