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The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram | Magazine - 1 views

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anonymous on 11 Oct 11

It's rather embarrassing that we still have a macroscopic chunk of something as the standard kilogram. The other fundamental units are defined in terms of atomic processes, but for mass we have a macro standard and an atomic standard. Scandalous! (I'm sure when the Higgs boson is found that everything will sort itself out.)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It's rather embarrassing that we still have a macroscopic chunk of something as the standard kilogram. The other fundamental units are defined in terms of atomic processes, but for mass we have a macro standard and an atomic standard. Scandalous! (I'm sure when the Higgs boson is found that everything will sort itself out.)</div>

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