For All Times, For All Peoples: How Replacing the Kilogram Empowers Industry | NIST

For All Times, For All Peoples: How Replacing the Kilogram Empowers Industry | NIST

For All Times, For All Peoples: How Replacing the Kilogram Empowers Industry

Two unusual things happened on Nov. 16, 2018. Fifty-five nations from every continent (except Antarctica) agreed on something, and metrology, the science of measurement, was major news!

On that day in Versailles, France, the world’s measurement experts voted to do something momentous. They passed a resolution that specifies the exact values for seven fundamental constants of physics and, in the process, they made it possible for anyone, anywhere to make precise, accurate measurements using the International System of Units (SI), popularly known as the metric system.

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