The Kilogram’s Retirement
I’m a big fan of Trace Dominguez and thought this video was super-interesting and relevant no matter where you live, including Northern Ontario since in Canada we do use the metric system. Following the video is the information Trace provided in the video’s description. Below find a link to an article on the same topic from the Associated Press.
From Trace Dominguez:
Le Grande K is one of the cornerstone standards of the metric system. All kilograms everywhere in the world are copies of Le Grande K!! It is the only surviving physical piece of the original metric system, and it’s about to die! This shiny chunk of metal lives in a vault under Paris, and after it’s gone, what will be the heir to the kilogram throne? What’s going to happen to all of our measurements without this one true kilogram? How will we know mass?! ~~~
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P.S — Next on the list of things to be redefined? The Second! Vibrations of atoms could be more accurate, I guess? As always more research is needed. P.P.S – I know what you might be thinking if you’re in the US, this is dumb. I know a foot, because my foot and blah blah. Except that it’s actually not. Once the U.S. National Bureau of Standards was founded, the foot stopped being pegged to any specific human-based foot. Instead it’s solely (see what I did there) based on the metric system. A foot is EXACTLY 0.3048 meters, were the meter to change in any way, the foot would change as well. The foot has nothing to do with humans. Seriously. Nothing. And it hasn’t since the late 1800s. Please take 9,192,631,770 cycles of atomic radiation of cesium and share this video on twitter or facebook; it’ll REALLY help us grow the channel, so we can tell even more amazing stories! Love you! 💙
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The associated press (incl. photos) provides more details on the retirement of the Kilogram, the vote that decided it and more in this article: https://www.voanews.com/a/grand-k-kilo-being-retired/4661760.html
