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1,000 GRAMS TO MEASURE; LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

机译:1,000克要测量;让我来计算一下

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Physicists are getting worked up about something that should have been settled long ago: Just how massive is a kilogram? Most units of scientific measure are now defined not by physical objects but by universal constants. A meter, for example, is the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/(299,792,458) of a second. The kilogram is a holdout, still defined by a cylinder of platinum-iridium kept in a vault near Paris since 1889. And the cylinder is losing weight—a grain of salt's worth so far—demonstrating the need for a unit based on a physical constant.
机译:物理学家正在努力解决早就应该解决的问题:公斤有多大?现在,大多数科学测量单位不是由物理对象定义的,而是由通用常数定义的。例如,米是真空中光在1 /(299,792,458)秒中传播的距离。自从1889年以来,公斤就是一种保留物,仍然由在巴黎附近的金库中保存的铂铱圆柱体来定义。圆柱体正在减肥(到目前为止,一粒盐的价值),这表明需要基于物理常数的单位。

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