On the hunt for a new ampere While there's been lots of attention paid to the search for a new kilogram, another of the SI system's fundamental units of measurement is under examination: the ampere. Along with the kilogram, metre, second, Kelvin, mole and candela, the ampere is one of the fundamental yardsticks used to measure the world around us. And, …
Perhaps, you might want to reconsider as there is not one damn thing wrong with the Amp just the way it is. Perhaps those who want to diddle around with miniscule values might just realize that measurements that small don't have any redeeming value in how "accurate" they are compared to one another.
Quit frikking around whith shite that does not provide any benefit. This is another case of Schroedingers twat.
The point of all this "diddling around with miniscule values" is that the inaccuracies are problematic for those using more cutting edge technology -- the present definition is simply not good enough. Any redefinitions will indeed be so small in relative terms (much less than parts per million) that the change would have no effect on most applications.
It won't affect my work, as we run a 'third tier' electrical calibration lab where our uncertainties are orders of magnitude higher than the probable corrections -- higher level labs may have to account for a redefinition to maintain their relative uncertainty levels, however.
Just because something is a useless exercise to you or I in our mundane activities does not mean it is a worthless exercise for everyone.
Well perhaps there is though...
Didn't you see the video of the boy and his atom? So, there we are looking at tiny, tiny things bopping about... And the boys in blue are telling us this is going to have something to do with storage, as if we needed telling that.
And their boffins are going...okay so how many amps do we need for these devices...and one of them says, well how much is an amp these days...like in comparison to these tiny, tiny things we made that terrible prawn flick of...oh, well let's see, an amp is like all those balls in that cool ad with the song by yer man on his guitar...heartbeats?...that's the one, anyway that many fer a second like...ah, could you be a bit more specific?...Eh, we'll have to ask Dan Paul, he says there's no point...NOT EVEN FOR SCIENCE!
C18,
Science simply for the sake of science is in many cases, an incredible waste of resources.
Changing units of measurement that are frankly quite good enough for what they are used for (simply because you can) is extraordinarily stupid. AND a huge waste of resources...
I suggest a new unit for such people, the microfuckwit. a unit of measurement that not only defines the unit but the person using it.
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