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To: Westlander

It’s been a long time since a Kilogram was defined as the weight of a particular rock. As science progresses definitions for units of measure get redefined whenever we discover a physical property that’s more stable than what we used before. For example, the original definition of a meter as the length of a particular rod didn’t take into account the fact that it would expand in the summer and contract in the winter (or during the day and at night). These days a meter is defined as the distance light in vacuum travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second, which doesn’t vary with temperature.


21 posted on 09/13/2007 11:02:15 PM PDT by ConsistentLibertarian
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To: ConsistentLibertarian

22 posted on 09/13/2007 11:17:27 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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