There’s a few aspects of the metric system that even Canadians can’t get into our heads. For instance, for a person’s height and weight, we still work in pounds and feet/inches, and for recipes, we still use cups and teaspoons, for some unfathomable reason. Despite measuring everything in the scientific field using metric, all distances except for our own height in meters/kilometers, and all volumes of liquid and solid matter in liters which correspond to cubic meters (1 milliliter = 1 cubic centimeter), we still have problems with the human measurements for some reason. I’m not immune — in my last post I did exactly that, saying I weigh 180lbs. But here in Canada, I actually weigh 81.64kg! Those of you looking to lose weight should move up here post-haste.

Anyway, all of this was meant as a prelude to linking you to something epic — CyberLizard’s first post in a week! Yes, this is a blatant attempt at shaming him into posting more, but it’s also an attempt at boosting his readership as this is some pretty cool stuff about how we actually measure our international units. Such as:

The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom (official BIPM definition).

Too cool.