{"id":90958,"date":"2019-05-19T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/tomorrow-the-definition-of-the-kilogram-will-change-forever-heres-what-that-really-means"},"modified":"2019-05-19T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T17:42:34","slug":"tomorrow-the-definition-of-the-kilogram-will-change-forever-heres-what-that-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/tomorrow-the-definition-of-the-kilogram-will-change-forever-heres-what-that-really-means","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow The Definition of The Kilogram Will Change Forever. Here\u2019s What That Really Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tomorrow-the-definition-of-the-kilogram-will-change-forever-heres-what-that-really-means3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, 130 years after it was established, the kilogram as we know it is about to be retired. But it\u2019s not the end: tomorrow, 20 May 2019, a new definition will be put in place \u2014 one that\u2019s far more accurate than anything we\u2019ve had until now.<\/p>\n<p>After the shift was unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-the-definition-of-a-kilogram-has-changed\">voted in<\/a> at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles at the end of last year, the change is now finally about to become official. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/le%20roi%20est%20mort,%20vive%20le%20roi\"><em>Le kilogramme est mort, vive le kilogramme.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most people don\u2019t think about metrology \u2014 the science of measurement \u2014 as we go about our day. But it\u2019s vastly important. It\u2019s not just the system by which we measure the world; it\u2019s also the system by which scientists conduct their observations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tomorrow-the-definition-of-the-kilogram-will-change-forever-here-s-what-that-really-means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, 130 years after it was established, the kilogram as we know it is about to be retired. But it\u2019s not the end: tomorrow, 20 May 2019, a new definition will be put in place \u2014 one that\u2019s far more accurate than anything we\u2019ve had until now. After the shift was unanimously voted in at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}