Comment on What has he done to deserve this?
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 months agothe fuckup in redefining the mole in 2019 What? It was necessary due to our observations of the universe (on every scale), not some subjective “fuckup”
Comment on What has he done to deserve this?
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 months agothe fuckup in redefining the mole in 2019 What? It was necessary due to our observations of the universe (on every scale), not some subjective “fuckup”
backgroundcow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nope, this redefinition isn’t necessary, it is a choice SI made. Nothing would have broken by keeping an exact relationship between amount of substance and mass, it would just have retained the meaning of Avogadro’s constant (experimentally determined vs a defined constant).