So, this is a little (lot) out of left field and it only sort of has to with tools as we typically define them.
But, it’s so amazing that if we were hanging on a jobsite and flipped over a couple of buckets to have lunch, I’d say, Did you hear about the kilogram?
You’d look at me like most of my friends do and say, “Oh no. He’s talking.”
But wait, there’s more.
Basically, our world is so jacked into the Matrix, if the entire planet can’t agree on how long a meter is or how much a kilogram weighs, our phones stop working, banking falls into total chaos, and it is Mad Max: Fury Road in short order.
The other thing that’s cool in this video, which is a little dry, are the machines they build to figure out how to solve this problem.
If you really want to spill down this rabbit hole, mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy does a more accessible—and exciting (100% fewer mentions of the Planck Constant)—treatment of this idea in this Netflix show.
And if you think your layout is dialed in, one of the components in the equation of how to figure out the new kilogram required determining the “volume of 1 atom.”
I mean, I can cut a pencil line in half, but heavens to mergatroid.
Watch the 1 Kilogram Redefinition documentary video here.