minus-squaredandan@kbin.socialtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Imperial units are based on the metric systemlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-22 years agoTo get even more pedantic… It’s defined on how far light will travel in a vacuum in the time it takes caesium-133 to do a certain number of transitions between hyperfine ground states. It’s cool how almost all units of measure are defined on caesium linkfedilink
minus-squaredandan@kbin.socialtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: there is a Lemmy frontend similar to old reddit called mlmymlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoDo we trust them not to steal credentials? linkfedilink
minus-squaredandan@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Harvard’s Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumnilinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWhy isn’t it world news? linkfedilink
To get even more pedantic…
It’s defined on how far light will travel in a vacuum in the time it takes caesium-133 to do a certain number of transitions between hyperfine ground states.
It’s cool how almost all units of measure are defined on caesium