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RE: Retiring the One Kilogram Standard
It will be replaced by a measurement based on mathematics
This very same thing happened to the meter years ago.
The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole – as a result the Earth's circumference is approximately 40,000 km today. In 1799, it was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar (the actual bar used was changed in 1889). In 1960, the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. In 1983, the current definition was adopted.
That's interesting. I wasn't aware of that. It makes sense though.