Why measure in all things?

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Of measure in all things.

© CNRS Éditions

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How do we get along to measure the world and quantify it more and more precisely?

How to do really good measure and to what extent?  

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Why do we need to measure the world and quantify it ever more precisely?

How did we manage to agree on a system of universal weights and measures?

And how essential and central it is in the functioning of our human societies.

This international and universal system, developed 150 years ago, was able to operate its revolution in 2018 by basing four of its main units of measurement (starting with the kilo) on the fundamentals of quantum physics, in this case the constant by Planck

How did we manage to come to an agreement to put the world in action?

How to do good and fair measure?

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