{"id":15643,"date":"2015-10-14T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T22:32:05","slug":"kilogram-conflict-resolved-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15643","title":{"rendered":"Kilogram conflict resolved at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For decades, metrologists have strived to retire \u2018Le Grand K\u2019 \u2014 the platinum and iridium cylinder that for 126 years has defined the kilogram from a high-security vault outside Paris. Now it looks as if they at last have the data needed to replace the cylinder with a definition based on mathematical constants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/kilogram-conflict-resolved-at-last-1.18550\">Kilogram conflict resolved at last : Nature News &amp; Comment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If they are proved right, in 2018, Le Grand\u00a0K will join the metre as a museum piece. \u201cWe\u2019ll keep it,\u201d says Davis, \u201cbut it won\u2019t be defining anything anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, metrologists have strived to retire \u2018Le Grand K\u2019 \u2014 the platinum and iridium cylinder that for 126 years has defined the kilogram from a high-security vault outside Paris. Now it looks as if they at last have the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[631,1312,862],"class_list":["post-15643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-material-science","tag-metrics","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15644,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions\/15644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}