Posted on 04/20/2008 5:58:33 PM PDT by BGHater
In the more than a century since 'perfect' platinum-iridium cylinders were first used as the world's kilogram standards, their weights have mysteriously fluctuated. Scientists are rethinking what the measure means.
GAITHERSBURG, MD. -- Forty feet underground, secured in a temperature- and humidity-controlled vault here, lies Kilogram No. 20.
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The intelligent (extremely beyond comprehension) designer designed kinds and "micro-evolution" or ability for adaptation and variations among the kinds. It is all in the the original design and has every thing to do with variations among kinds. That explains your question about evolution. Life diversifies because the ability through genetic information was at the beginning implanted in the genes of the original life The Creator created. It may be hard to accept and understand unless you can begin to conceive of how extremely and perfectly intelligent The Creator is. He knows the end from the beginning and everything in between.
OK, so how is that different than what I posted? Essentially God starting the process, and using the process of evolution to create diversity of life?
Or maybe related to minute isotope and nuclides within an isoptope mix differences between the bars.
Easier calculation, I suppose. A US survey mile is about an eighth of an inch longer than an international mile.
Here's a good article I found:
1 grain = 64.79891 milligrams
My grandfather used to say “A pint is a pound the world round.”, it seems to be a fair estimate of most commodities.
The distance between the point of the index finger and the elbow was never meaningful to me before.
Amidst all the bickering, I see no one has mentioned the underlying problem. How do you measure the standard and what do you use to calibrate the device doing the measuring?
“Next thing you know the UN folks will want us to change to a ten hour day with 100 decihours, with 1000 millihours.”
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decabet
Remember the SNL skit re the 100 hour metric day?
This isn’t a fluctuation in weight... its a fluctuation in mass which results in a fluctuation in weight.
Why isn’t a KG a unit of measure based on a volume of water? This would be universal, instead they went the other way and said a 1000g of water = 1 KG or 1gram = 1 millileter
If they had decided on a universal volume container, and declared that much of a purified liquid is 1 KG they wouldn’t be having this problem.
Fluctuation in mass resulting in fluctuation in weight...hence my assertion that there are nefarious local disturbances in the universal gravitation constant.
No, you didn't read the whole article... the presumption of gravitational constants being to blame are not true.. Every 50 years these things are sent back to france and compared with the original at the same spot on the globe.
If it were gravitational constant fluctuation they would weigh the same at the same point on the globe at the same time... There is a MASS differential that is occurring.
Saying it weighs X in switzerland and .9987X in australia would support your claim. Saying one weighs X in France at 9am today, and the other on the opposite side of the scale 6 inches away at 9am today weighs .9987x is not due to fluctuations in the gravitational constant... its due to something affecting the masses of these objects over time, and different rates.
Degassing even purified water sample uniformly from site to site would be next to impossible. Also volume is exceedingly difficult to measure accurately and changes rather strongly with temperature. Mass (as weight) doesn’t.
Yes, degassing is difficult, but required. You aren’t talking that everyone is measuring by this.. its the BASE unit you are basing everything else from.. this reference unit is not something used daily.
You deal with the temperature issue by simply adding the requirements of temperature by simply requiring the measurment to be at a certain temperature.
Volume of a known universal liquid should have been the basis of the unit in the first place.
It’s very meaningful to the folks who design toilets.
Except they are measuring them all in the same place. And they aren't measuring "weight" by gravitational means at all.
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