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Warp wrote:
> According to wikipedia, one liter of pure water at 4 degrees celsius (the
> standard temperature for measuring SI units) is 0.9999720 kilograms.
It may be that it's too difficult to measure "pure water" at "exactly 4
degrees celsius" for modern measurement precision.
Plus, of course, if you make *everything* circular, then you have nothing.
If a kilogram is the weight (well, mass) of a liter of water, and a liter is
1000 cubic centimeters, and a centimeter is the length of one gram of carbon
atoms lined up (or some such) then the whole thing falls down.
Given that a cm is defined in terms of the speed of light, and time is
defined in terms of a cesium atom at rest at 0K, I guess we already have
unusable base metrics, tho.
> If they changed the definition of kilogram back to its original form, the
> change would be less than 0.003% from the currently accepted value. Would
> that be a huge catastrophe?
Only for scientists working on 15 digits of precision in their scientific
experiments. Kind of like "would it really make a difference if we skipped a
leap-second every 3 to 5 years?"
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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