Ziggurat
Penultimate Amazing
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I was not given the luxury of getting a formal education, so your units of measure, strict formalism, is starting to piss me off.
If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
I've gone easy on you, and in fact I've understated the problem. If I were to tell you that I'm 6 kilometers tall, you might conclude that I had the wrong units. But at least that's still a length, so the dimension is right. But if I said I was 5 Coulombs tall, or that I weigh 3 seconds, or that the distance from my house to my office is 18 Ohms, well, that's not simply the wrong units, those are the wrong dimensions. And it doesn't take any formal education to understand that, and the importance of getting the right dimensions, not just units, isn't a matter of strict formalism either: if it's wrong, everything is wrong.
And your dimensions are wrong. You can't arbitrarily throw out dimensions either in order to rescue your answer.
G' represents a gravitational field strength in whatever ******* units you like.
No, it doesn't. G does. But G' has different dimensions than G, not just different units. G' is meaningless, and the procedure you used to obtain it is arbitrary and inconsistent. Valid methods for obtaining physical constants don't depend on which units you use. The numerical answer does, but after-the-fact unit conversion will show agreement. This is not the case for your G': start with different units for G, and your answers for G' will not agree even with unit conversion. Try it if you don't believe me. Which makes your G' an arbitrary number, nothing more.
It does share the same digits as G The Gravitational constant.
That is meaningless.