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[Phys-L] new kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole



This is progress. This is a Good Thing™

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/metric-system-overhaul-will-dethrone-one-true-kilogram

When the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)
convenes next week in Versailles, France, representatives of the 60
member nations are expected to vote to redefine the International
System of Units (SI) so that four of its base units — the kilogram,
ampere, kelvin, and mole — [...] will be fixed by fiat.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/09/in-the-balance-scientists-vote-on-first-change-to-kilogram-in-century

The vote is essentially a done deal. The debates have been had, the
solutions agreed.