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Metrology in the balance

22 Mar 2011 Robert P Crease

The world’s leading metrologists are keen to redefine the seven SI units in what is billed as the system’s biggest overhaul since the French Revolution. Robert P Crease reports from a recent meeting that discussed the proposed changes

On balance
  The event at the Royal Society in London in January began precisely on time. But after the f

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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