Scientific proof:
How could a standard weight fluctuate? Doesn’t that really mean everything else in the universe had their weight fluctuate?
Scientific proof:
The different national prototype kilograms are varying from the international prototype kilogram, and from each other. By values, by the way, which represent exceedingly tiny amounts. If the International Prototype Kilogram masses exactly 1 kg, the United States Prototype Kilogram masses 1.000000019 kg.
I yield second place to no man in my disgust for the French. But the plain and simple truth is that SI is superior to the archaic, illogical system we use in the United States, despite the fact that it was invented in France. Ignoramuses and xenophobes blocked its adoption here, which has the result of putting American children at a disadvantage in the sciences... since scientists worldwide use SI, but non-American scientists have an intuitive grasp for the mass of a kilogram or the length of a meter that was developed since birth. And I see this same ignorance and xenophobia on display in this very thread by people who apparently are unaware that the pound is defined in terms of the kilogram, you blockheads.
Expansion of the universe.
“Doesn’t that really mean everything else in the universe had their weight fluctuate?”
That probably is what is causing such a stir.
I would think, in order of likelihood, one of the following is true:
1. The discrepancy is smaller than the margin of error of whatever method they are using to measure it,
2. The weight wasn’t THAT precicely weighted to begin with,
3. There was some undiscovered source of wear/corrosion,
or,
maybe 20. There is some undiscovered principle of physics causing the change. Not impossible, but pretty unlikely.
Easy. Gravity fluctuates.
Note that Le Grand K doesn’t fluctuate. Only the other copies do.