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SiempreViernes
52 days ago
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One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm
The standard metre was a rod 1 metre long, you might be thinking of the standard kilo which is a compact cylinder?
fennecbutt
51 days ago
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Was, they made the smoothest silicon sphere, Avogadro project. And now apparently they define it via physics as mentioned in ops article, "namely a specific transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, the speed of light, and the Planck constant"
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