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 .p101 [[ | ]]  .p101 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibble_balance | Kibble balance ]] new definition of Kilogram based on Planck's constant measured with Josephson effect and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Hall_effect | Quantum Hall effect ]]

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The Seven Measures of the World

Piero Martin 2021/2023 CedarMill 530.18 Martin

fusion researcher at University of Padova

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

  • p008 stere cubic meter of cut firewood

  • p008 meter defined as 1e-7 of distance from North Pole to Equator through Paris
  • p009 1960 Oct 15 Hamburg: John/Paul/George/Ringo record Gershwin's Summertime Pete Best?

  • p009 Original Système international d'unités was meter, second, kilogram, ampere, Kelvin, candela; mole added in 1971

  • p011 Redefined 2018 Nov 16 by fundamental physical constants
  • p016 1946 May 3 Einstein attends Lincoln University graduation, "first college degree for an African American student"

  • p021 Roman passus 1.48 meters 4.854 feet, left+right step, hence 29 inches per step

  • p026 International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres? (or Saint-Cloud?) near Paris

  • p028 Heinrich Hertz 1893? Maxwell electromagnetic waves "will have any practical application"

  • p039 "c" either constant or celeritas (velocity)

  • p049 Luxor Obelisk traded for mechanical clock in 1830

  • p051 Galileo timing cathedral lamp swing, isochronism of the pendulum

  • p052 Galileo draws first pendulum clock?

    • his son Vincenzo makes prototype? citation needed
  • p052 Christiaan Huygens first functional prototype 1656

  • p054 PLOS One 2020 Castro Úcar

  • p054 Beethoven may have misread his metronome, too-fast tempo on symphony scores compared to modern interpretations

  • p055 Quartz wristwatch 32768 Hz crystal, accurate to 15 seconds per month ? ... my digital watch is better than 5 seconds in six months

  • p057 Cesium 133 clocks 9,192,631,770 Hz. Book error, says "per minute"

  • p058 NIST Clock accuracy one second in 3e8 years, 1e-16

  • p060 Picasso sketch: "it didn't take eight seconds to make this drawing, it took eighty years"

  • p069 Atomic clock in Fréjus Road Tunnel altitude 1200m ran faster than in Turin 200m

  • p069 special relativity slows GPS clocks by 7μs per day ... no faster, orbiting about 94% out of the gravity well minus 3% for orbital velocity. 7 microseconds or two kilometers per day
  • p074 Laura Fermi Jewish, so Enrico and wife left Italy in 1938

  • p074 Eugene Fubini ditto, followed Fermis to US

  • p076 Fritz Haber also Jewish, developed Zyklon-B, died in Switzerland 1934

  • p077 Erwin Planck hanged 1945 Jan 23 for Operation Valkyrie Hitler assassination attempt 19444

  • p079 Talent 26? Kg ... if silver, a month's salary for trireme crew of 200

  • p081 carat was weight of 200 mg carob seed

  • p081 kilogram / liter of water redefined from 0℃ to maximum density 4℃, more stable
  • p082 1875 International Prototype Kilogram gained 50 micrograms in 100 years

  • p085 1919 eclipse test of relativity, wild New York Times headline reported from London by NYT golf correspondent
  • p085 anecdote: Eddington told 3 people understood relativity; he wondered who the third was.

  • p085 Feynman: many people understand relativity, nobody understands quantum mechanics

  • p090 Svante Arrhenius Worlds in the Making 1908 future ages better climate

  • p095 Cumaean Sibyl

    • "You will go, you will return, never in war you will perish" OR
    • "You will go, you will return never, in war you will perish"
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