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Absolute units, or natural units, are a system of units where certain dimensionful constants are set to 1. This often simplifies various formulae.

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What exactly are we doing when we set $c=1$?

All we're doing is using a set of units where certain quantities happen to take convenient numerical values. For example, in the SI system we might measure lengths in meters and time intervals in seco …
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