Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?

  • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    the fuckup in redefining the mole in 2019

    What? It was necessary due to our observations of the universe (on every scale), not some subjective “fuckup”

    • backgroundcow@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Nope, this redefinition isn’t necessary, it is a choice SI made. Nothing would have broken by keeping an exact relationship between amount of substance and mass, it would just have retained the interpretation of Avogadro’s constant from before 2019 (experimentally determined vs a defined constant).