The kilogram has changed forever. Here’s why.
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- In November, scientists from around the world met in Paris to do something remarkable: they redefined the kilogram. This standard of measure was once based on a hunk of metal under lock and key in France - but in 2019, it will officially be defined by something far, far stranger. Take a weird trip into the world of measurement with us as we find out why.
Correction: An eagle-eyed viewer pointed out a small error when we described the old definition of a kilogram. It should have been "the weight of water equal to the cube of a tenth part of the metre"…not "the hundredth part." Otherwise, you'd be getting a gram, not a kilogram. Good catch…and a good argument for the metric system!
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Correction: An eagle-eyed viewer pointed out a small error when we described the old definition of a kilogram. It should have been "the weight of water equal to the cube of a tenth part of the metre"…not "the hundredth part." Otherwise, you'd be getting a gram, not a kilogram. Good catch…and a good argument for the metric system!
Isn't that a thousandth part of a cubic metre?
Since 1 cubic metre equals 1000 litres of pure water. 1 litre of pure water makes 1 kilogram by the older definition.
U can edit videos now
Meter*
What a nerd. (Good on you tho)
why didn't you guy take the temperature of water into account? water had to be at 4 degrees C. Please provide the right fact you had two chances
but steel is heavier than feathers
umami umami proof
We truly are the smartest nation on earth
But they're both a kilogramme
kilodamme
@@AloneInTheVoid yes sir.
It's also worth mentioning that the US Pound is defined by the Kilogram via NIST.
Miles are also defined by meters
@@lulube11e111 Well al Imperial system units defined using Metric system units which currently after kg, all based on fundamentals of nature and completely independent from time, material and place.
Yeah, but the problem with the imperial system is working with Newtons, Joules, Watts etc, these units are based on the metric system but are still used in the imperial
@@AliceTheSpider It is still dependent on time as Plancks constant is. Otherwise, the new kilogram wouldn't have been redefined as it is.
@@cristobalgarces1675 plank constantly doesn't have a time dependency, and new kilogram is the one defined by that which is what I am referring to
Dammit now I have to re-weigh all these kilos of cocaine
el chapo
Rr
Do it quicker. If they find out you hide 1 eyelash of cocaine less, you will be in trouble
we all agree on a unit of measurement, just america dont......
#thanksobama
@@MindfulProgramming uhh that's a joke right? The imperial system has been in place for ages. Oof I can't tell with comments anymore
@@tajwarba 😂 ye
and Liberia and Burma
Bryce Bacon imperial system is defined by the metric system
Is no one going to talk about how that guy just tattooed Planck's constant on his arm?
worth it.
That's one of the coolest tattoos I have seen. Plus you have the constant for exams
Ikr that was really something 😂
and the guy who plucked an eyelash for the video
The team of people that made this change all got the same tattoo to celebrate the achievement
Is it just me or does anyone else want that card from 2:14 (a really nice person in the comments remade it so go have a look)
I was just about to ask if anyone know where to find that card?
Can't find it anywhere
Yes please
I was just about to write this
i was about to ask the same.
_If the US switched over to the metric system, there would be _*_mass confusion_*
Lol good one
The us switched to the metric system, but allowed the usage of the old system.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
+Nils Matt Oh my god what a shocking revelation! No! I can’t go on in a world where we don’t use the customary system! I have to kill myself now!
There is mass confusing because the US uses the metric system
should've done it back when it was easy
The Kilogram isn't changing, it just got defined!
So the definition changed...
redefined*
Please U.S. just get into the metric system. You will solve a lot of problems.
It’s incredibly expensive, most people here prefer the metric system too. It’s just the fact that most of our laws and infrastructure are based on the customary system.
I wish America would just adjust to the metric system. It would solve a lot of problems for me so I know that the unit of measurement won’t change when I go to another country
Clarence Royandoyan Yes, but there are more people in America than 1 person, more than you.
I've heard stories of a plane nearly crashing because the same number was kept but in different units (for fuel). Another one I'm less sure of was a shuttle exploding due to different measures again.
@@lancelindlelee7256 There was an orbiter that exploded, wasting 125 million USD. It was due to two teams using different units for their calculations.
"we don't really agree" ... Only the US*, basically all the world uses metric.
Mozart Liessi we are special and leaders. ;)
Andriod Khan Which ironically K20 is used for pounds
@@andriod8014 yeah yeah yeah
You and Myanmar..
@@andriod8014 Leaders in overcomplicated systems
I want to ask where could I get the card for the new international system of units
Idk all I can find is different aspect ratios of business cards. Why is that such a thing?
You could just get a screenshot
Can you make the measurement from the card?
Google it ?
I don't know but I can tell you where you can't get it. From those slow americans.
5:06 😨😨😨 OH GOD WHY.
Probably due to radioactive decay 🤔
@@pranavaramanbms1609 lmaoo she was asking why they showed the clip of an eyelash being picked out, not why the prototype kilogram lost mass
In the name of Science 😥
You never done that in front of the mirror ?
I don't know why but i am so touched watching all the scientist from all nations agreed about the definition and applaud 😭
How'd you get that SI unit card? Where can i buy it?
I came to the comments just for this question
yo i know right that was pretty cool but i think it was only given to those who attended the event
imgur.com/gallery/FAUdZg5 i made it in photoshop
@@Aaron-jj9no thanks
There's also the most round object in the world which was also used to calculate plank's constant.
It's Planck
It wasn't used to calculate the value of Planck's constant, it was to count the number of silicon 28 atoms it takes to be exactly 1 kilogram it was to redefine the Avagadro's number. Please edit the comment its frustrating.
Are you sad to see the old kilogram go?
Happy to see that we go further towards perfection good to see the progress we are making
Ver.....itasium???
no..... i mean why?
Yep
@Till Schwarz By that logic wouldn't that make you and anyone else that has that idea just as ignorant? 😉
Am I the only one who had to laugh when Herr Schlamminger said that the US got Number 4 and 20?
Nice
@@azmanabdula Nice
Yes, yes you are
... And a number 6 with extra dip.
@@jakobrmh Do you think anyone gets it?
(420)
What time is it?
Are British people aware that stones and miles are not part of the metric system? Because I think there's a confusion here. They dont use it for everything.
Yes we are - also we don’t really use stones, the only non metric units we use are miles and feet (and pints for beer 🍺 😉)
I was thinking that. The UK guy is high if he thinks we use metric for everything. The rest of us know we don’t 😂
Yeah, e.g using miles instead of kilometres.
@@Rin-ef2tp why do you cling onto a stupid and unreliable unit
@@rebeccaanderson5626 I don’t know 🤷🏽♀️ why do Americans? I’m a scientist so at work I strictly use metric but I buy milk or beer in pints, use miles when I’m driving, I measure my height in ft and inches and weigh myself in stones because if I want to tell my friend how much I weigh they won’t have any idea what I mean if I tell them in Kilos
I was just about to ask you for this video. Because this is THE most important event of 2018, touching everything we do and also touching everyone in this planet in one way or the other. Thanks! And well done!
Wishing everyone a beautiful and safe holiday. Merry christmas
Thanks. Merry Xmas to you too!
wish back to u Merry christmas
Thankyou, merry xmas man
I don't celebrate it...
@@at2t1 Thog don't care
Ai hev a queshtion for you: wich is hevier: a kellogramm of steel or a kellogramme of feders?
Straight from the dead MEME graveyard
A kellogram of steel
I mean the spelling hurts me more than the dead meme
@@cianduffy2280 True.
Cian Duffy you do know it’s meant to
Be like that?
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I bet that imperial system was made with random number generator
The seemingly random numbers come from the need to redefining the SI units. One tenth of a million of a meridian is nice and pretty. But when they decided to use light speed for more precision (since it's a universal constant), the conversion had to adopt those numbers.
@@jmiquelmb It's not a universal constant. The speed of light isn't a constant at all. They showed that in 2015 already.
@ It is in vacuum.
The mile was defined as 8 furlongs. A furlong was the length of a furrow a team of oxen could plow in a day.
A gallon is of Roman origin and it meant "a pailful", as in, 'grab a pail full of water'
A foot was the size of the Kings foot
a pound came from the word "libra" (lb) and was equal to 7000 grains
Whats heavier a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?
But a kilogramme of steel is hævier than fæthers
No but a kilogramme is a kilogramme
Nicholas Zakem no, a kilogram of steel is heavier because steel is heavier than feathers....🤦♂️
@@samrofik1764 what?
IceCube Gaming i see you have not been taught in the way of the kellogram
@@frederikvandrup6081 teach me your ways senpai
It's time for the US to adopt the Metric System.
They already have done so. Mile and pound are simple conversions of meter and kilogram
@@Opharg but why?? They could have used the same kg and meter right??
sriHARI HS no one knows why, the people that made it like this are long gone, and changing it is incredibly expensive.
If Huawei makes a metric chip set , do you think America would accept it. 🤣
In America we are taught both but we only use imperial out of school
I’m learning some new things in your channel. Thank you!
thanks for not mentioning how it is actually precisely defined (not just "in terms of planck's constant")
you had one job...
2:12
WuT's HeViAh? A KeLoGrUm Of StEeL, Or A KeLoGrUm Of FeThOs?
The verge science is the best science channel!
Where did that *Roundest object: a silicon ball* go??
5:46 That’s the most geekiest tattoo I’ll ever see.
Amaracan : omg she's 150 pounds😱
Brit ish : no you bollocks, i'm just 68 kilograms
Actually, the British would typically say she's 10 stone, 10. (a stone is 14 pounds, and the unlabeled unit to follow is the leftover 10 pounds.) That's one of several contexts where the metric system was unable to displace the imperial system in the UK. (Their highway signage often list distances in furlongs and miles too.)
@@TheBurningWarrior never seen this bro in uk i only saw kilogram
How will this effect the drug trade?
@Charlie K he's high on drugs, that's why he mispelled it.
@@pattrickmerete, yeah he's high on sugar
This affect has had the wrong effect ..yes. 😒 yes...I see
well, 1 kg cocain is still 1 kg cocain, if not, you still lose your head.
Extension Flexxin more precise bag of coke
I thought that kilogram is the unit to measure masses not weights.
Its the same thing for all practical purposes
Mass is the physical amount of "stuff" an object contains, expressed in mol. Not entirely the same thing.
@@DarkAngelEU you're wrong.
@@DarkAngelEU moles are a counting unit used to count entities,. not exactly mass.
You thought wrong.
Where can I get that card
Take a screenshot
But the official one
@@shrivatsakulkarni9282 make it yourself, using indesign
So, what is the defination of Kilogram now?
Planck's constant
Where can we buy that card with all the Units ? #NerdAlert
Where can I get the card with SI units??
I'd also like to know
You could just take a screenshot
@Harold Potsdamer thanks, I found that one as well, but not the latest version shown in the video.
Given this video and these cards, I bet most people still don't understand how 1 kg is actually defined.
1 kg = ?
I NEED them
Fun Fact: The US actually uses the kilogram and converts it to define the pound.
Same with inches. Exactly 2.54 cm in an inch
Fun fact number two. The us officially switched to the metric system.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act
@@lumschente Not technically. That act just allowed the metric system to be used, it didn't actually force anyone to convert. Unless at a bare minimum it becomes mandatory that anything government issued or legally binding be in metric only, it can't really be called a conversion
2:14 How do you get that?
An Otaku James received this card at the ceremony!
Verge Science is there anywhere we can buy it from?
@@winstonwei9694 used Google, did not find. Better solution?
@@winstonwei9694 bragging rights for doofus
I have seen the “ French Revolution” standard kilogram in a museum. It was presented alongside the standard metre which had the year “1799” inscribed on it.
"We don't agree on a unit of measurement yet" aka "the US doesn't want to drop the archaic english system yet like the rest of the world did when we decided to go metric "
Well actually the US isn’t the only county that doesn’t use the metric system
@@thatoneguy6139 now it is most also liberia integrated it now so youre the last one i would say
@@thatoneguy6139 YOU ARE THE LAST ONE YOU PATHETIC ... SO much ego can not change the units to something that is scientifically defined
Congrats to all US customary units fans because now the pound (defined as a part of a kilo) is more precise than ever!
Veritasium did it First hehe
Still a nice Video
The more spreading this kind of news, the better! Besides coming with the creative idea and more structured video takes time.
This is about science education, not about who did it first.
I’m surprised they also didn’t mention one of the world’s roundest objects being used to check the Kibble balance work.
I prefer this one actually.
Very well made Video. Thank you!
- How do you say flamingo in german?
- Schlammingo.
How can you claim that everybody in the world can now access the exact kilo, if you need a super expensive, extremely intricate machine to measure Planck's constant?
They probably wrote down the data results somewhere on some document and published it world wide. Internet included.
So there's no need to make that super expensive, extremely intricate machine yourself.
It's common sense really. I mean, if everyone had to make that machine themselves. They wouldn't have voted for the change.
How did you come to that conclusion?
Planck’s constant was also defined to an exact value. Same with the mole, the speed of light, the meter, and the Ampere.
The kilogram is dead, long live the kilogram.
Love this series. Love it
When you were trying to read whats written on the card but its too shaky..
Meanwhile in US:
"Imperial ftw lolbbq XD"
You do realize we learn both and imperial units are based on the metric system, right?
Got question for ya.
Which one is heavier.
A kilogram in 2019 or a kilogram in 2017.
2019
but steel is heavier than feathers
Mimiz dani but they both a kilogram.
@The Niggalodeon
Its the same.. well technically 2019 is 50 micro grams heavier..
@@raphaellecoeur5738 what? steel is heavier than feathers... I don't get it
How to get that si units card?
that si units card was nice
Sooo .... now if you want to explain 5 year olds in first grade what a kilogram is , you first have to teach them about the plank’s constant ??
No more than you teach them speed of light in preparation of learning the metre or function of atomic clocks to understand seconds.
wait, since when did we teach the definition of International System of Units to first grader?
they teach it in the first year of middle school ya bafoon
correct... or give them a 1kg bag of flour and tell them that's how heavy it is
0:45 Shouldn't it be the tenth part of the meter?
Yes, 1 m^3 equals 1000 L
There is a logical word for 1/10 of a meter, you learn it by going to a good school.
Great video guys.. keep it up
Great work
US guy:"we have not agreed on an exact unit of measurement yet"
Scientific Official Units and literally 99% of the world: am I a joke to you?
The video is a little late this happened november 16th
Wow using kibble balance finally recognizing real science on this channel. proud of y'all
Humanities shine the brightest among scientists like these. It's amazing.
America got the 420 Weights lmfao! 3:20
America and counting! lol
This just in: recipes can't exist without a kilogram
Modern society would crumble without it!
are those hexagon weights with vegetable vendors updated yet?
Why am I just learning this now? I thought it was a new video but it is a year old. Not happy.
What's heavier?
a
ｋ ｉ ｌ ｏ ｇ ｒ ａ ｍ ｍ ｅ
of steel
or a
ｋ ｉ ｌ ｏ ｇ ｒ ａ ｍ ｍ ｅ
of feathers?
3:27 🍀🍀😎🚬 yeah babey
420 BLAZE IT
No it's not... It's just denser...
I personally haven't had a need to learn metric yet. For the few times I'm presented with something only listed in metric, I just ask my phone to convert the metric unit to something useful. Usually that's only when I'm traveling outside the US, but even then I often see friendly pounds, feet or gallons in small print next to metric.
2:54 splash. -Maysin Pure
So basically the plank cte is the new kilogram?
@Astir01 that's quite close , so they're just made the kilograms more if you say acceptable among all the different measuring systems.
But what basis we measure those torque and power?
@@CharDhue you have to go back to electron charge. Electron charge defines current which define voltage. Voltage and current define power and power defines torque. Meter and second is also involve. To define voltage you need a current and distance. To define current you need charge and time. Time is defined by atomic vibration and distance is define by speed of light constant.
Astir01's answer is very wrong! For starters, [J*s] is not the unit of torque, [N*m] is. Also, how long is that beam supposed to be? But even with a unit like [N * m] in there, you can't just assume that it's necessarily about torque, especially when talking about fundamental constants.
Instead, take a look at the _definitions_ (not measurements) of various physical constants described on this card (the link is from one of the other comments):
pbs.twimg.com/media/DsOFIXxXoAEXZJN.jpg
For the definition of [kg], we need to consider Planck's constant
h = 6.62607015 * 10^-34 [J * s],
the speed of light
c = 299792458 [m / s]
and the transition frequency of a Caesium atom
nuCs = 9192631779 [Hz]
Now we substitue the abbreviated units by proper ones
[J * s] = [kg * m^2 / s]
and
[Hz] = [1 / s].
Now we can construct a quantity that has only units of mass by cancelling all other units in Planck's constant:
nuCs * h / c^2 = 9192631779 * 6.62607015 * 10^-34 / 299792458^2 [kg]
which is equivalent to
1 [kg] = nuCs * h / c^2 * 299792458^2 / (9192631779 * 6.62607015 * 10^-34).
So any alien civilization just needs to make machines to determine these constants in whatever alien units they like, and they can convert it to our units with these definitions.
The same can be done for the other SI units as well.
Now we can no longer hope our scale is wrong... Because one eyelash is sometimes a big achivement (sarcasm sign). 😎
😁
Use /s
LOL
I see you every time I g o to the comments lol
In the science world, it is
5:29
RUclips: You're demonetized + age restricted.
5:34 that picture is in my textbook
God FINALLY
5:29 i see BOB i react LOB ;)
How many plank masses is the kilogram under the new definition?
Which editing software do you use?
I'm really ready to see America adopt the metric system. I feel like it's going to be a gradual process
I don't think it's going to be a process at all.
It's going to take many many years even the next couple of generations are unlikely to see it since it is a building block the country is based especially after the industrial revolution which means it would take a painfully large amount of money to change.
40 years ago when the U.S. attempted a move to metric, it was fought by parents unwilling to learn conversions. Today, they carry cellphones that can do the maths conveniently enough. It would be fought by nationalisit's fear of globalism now. Perhaps next administration.
@@evilotto9200 it's never gonna happen even if we wanted to it's too expensive if it was gonna happen it had to happen during the industrial revolution.
Never gonna happen
Fantatisc video!!!
how different is it to the original??
What a wonderful explainer!
Goodbye Le Grande K, you will not be missed.
well it will still stay around since it has been measured and documented for so long Scientists are gonna continue measure it and it's siblings for years to come for research. Long live Le Grande K.
but they're both a kilogram...
Niggachu no. They deviate from the exact definition of a kiliogram which is 1.000000... kg, whereas a physical constant will be like 0.999999...0 kg, due to decay. Everything eventually decays radioactively, as well as react with the environment and hence changes the mass
So is the kilogram literally the same mass as it was before but tied to something constant. Or did it like become a bit smaller or a bit bigger
6:08 for a moment there I thought I saw an old version of Eddie Redmayne
Is this channel called Ver....itasium?
No.Not really.At lest we have a constant that we can be sure that won't change over time.
Also, Merry christmas!
both system should stay in my opinion.
Merry Christmas
where can i get a card like that with the measurements its kinda cool
This is so awesome 👌
Let me see. (takes the kilogram) Alas, poor Kilogram! I knew him, Horatio, a mass of finite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath weighed me on his balance a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
yayyy olde weights fun my fave😋😋
This is from Hamlet, but not sure which fragment. Is it from when he grabs a human skull?
Progress mate, progress.
I agree, this is good progress!
This question came in my SSC exam thanks 😃
Interesting to see a physicist having a tattoo of Planck’s constant.
_Memers has entered the chat_
5:43
How much of a nerd do you have to be to do this
@@12xenn45 lol
@@12xenn45 man you burnt him
The man ACTUALLY tattooed it on his arm!
@@nousername191 The absolute madlad!
That is actually so damn cool, to have the weights and measures tied to natural phenomena rather than physical objects. That's actually mind blowing!
Bugler55 Actually no, only the second is derived from the Caesium Atom. In this case the "hyperfine transition frequency caesium atom" So it's a natural phenomena related to the ceasium atom rather than the atom itself. all the rest are based off of other natural phenomena as can be seen in the new system of units as shown here imgur.com/gallery/FAUdZg5
man, this is going to cause MASS confusion
Most of us will use the old one anyways
Yes, I always take a trip to Paris and ask the SI association for permission to grab the original kg when I want to make a cake