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Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists
Associated Press
| Sep. 12, 2007
| JAMEY KEATEN
Posted on 09/12/2007 2:47:48 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Would it be too far fetched to say this demonstrates entropy?Must we always talk politics? :-)
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:57:57 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: Oberon
someone cleaned it and didn’t tell anybody?..........
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:57:57 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: Cruising Speed
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:58:00 PM PDT
by
null and void
(<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
To: Recovering_Democrat
"Would it be too far fetched to say this demonstrates entropy? "Yes.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:58:34 PM PDT
by
spunkets
("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
To: decimon
Proton decay. Of course that’s A LOT of protons.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:58:44 PM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: decimon
The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight
Probably from Hillary sneaking in there every night and 'polishing' it.
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:59:18 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: Cruising Speed
The copies have probably oxidized a bit and gained weight—sort of like I have. Rusty? Is that you?
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posted on
09/12/2007 2:59:31 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Red Badger
Local gravity may have changed slightly..............Good thought, but the copies are being weighed in the small local gravity field as the original.
To: Red Badger
Local gravity may have changed slightly.........That's it. Sarkozy brought gravitas.
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:00:32 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
I thought the gram (a thousand of which make up a kilogram) is just the weight of a cubic centimeter of pure water.
The centimeter in turn was taken from a measure of the earth’s arc and then brought down to a usable dimension. This was done, I believe, at the behest of the French Revolution’s drive for objective standards.
Heck, that is what I learned in physics.
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:00:49 PM PDT
by
bajabaja
To: Recovering_Democrat
Slow release of gases entrained during the original casting process?
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:01:05 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( Peace based on respected strength is truly peace; peace based on weakness is ignoble slavery)
To: Cruising Speed
While the Metrologists were out to lunch, the cleaning lady, from Chad, came in and saw it was kinda dull, so she polished it for them............
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:01:05 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: reagan_fanatic
I bet she ain’t never polished a shiny knob in her life!................
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:02:47 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: decimon
Everything looses weight over time (except my wife). My one pound of coffee (16 oz) is now 11.5 oz.
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:03:14 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Ever see WILLIS SHAW backwards in your rear view mirror? I have!)
To: TC Rider
Rusty?
Yep, rust in my joints and some spare mass around the middle, too.
To: decimon
So much for uniformity.
ML/NJ
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:04:19 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: decimon
Don’t be crazy, go with the Hardy Planck
you’ll be glad you did.
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:05:04 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Cruising Speed
They can use mine: \
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:05:30 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: decimon
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:05:54 PM PDT
by
StevieJ
To: Cruising Speed; TC Rider
*ahem* So what am I? Chopped liver???
See post #23...
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:06:10 PM PDT
by
null and void
(<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
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