Standard Weights and Measures
Standard Weights and Measures
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I couldn't think of which forum for this, but figured most would come here at some time.
I was watching a TVO (like PBS) show (probably from the BBC/ITV) about standard weights and measures, dealing with time and meter length standards and creating hyper accurate standards.
1) If we're measuring time by the frequency of atomic emissions (I think we are), yeah it's easy to count peaks and infer the period of time from the number of peaks (from the frequency of the emission), but isn't the frequency of the emission dependent on some physical parameter (planck's constant?) ? Do we Know that constant to such an amazing degree of accuracy ?
2) Is the flow of time here on earth affected by the earth's gravitational field ?
3) The speed of light (used to measure a meter) is dependent on the medium it travels through (yes?). If so, how do we make a perfect vacuum ? (if we're making hyper-accurate measurements)
4) Is the distance here on earth that this light travels affected by the earth's gravitational field ?
I was watching a TVO (like PBS) show (probably from the BBC/ITV) about standard weights and measures, dealing with time and meter length standards and creating hyper accurate standards.
1) If we're measuring time by the frequency of atomic emissions (I think we are), yeah it's easy to count peaks and infer the period of time from the number of peaks (from the frequency of the emission), but isn't the frequency of the emission dependent on some physical parameter (planck's constant?) ? Do we Know that constant to such an amazing degree of accuracy ?
2) Is the flow of time here on earth affected by the earth's gravitational field ?
3) The speed of light (used to measure a meter) is dependent on the medium it travels through (yes?). If so, how do we make a perfect vacuum ? (if we're making hyper-accurate measurements)
4) Is the distance here on earth that this light travels affected by the earth's gravitational field ?
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2) Yes, gravitational time dilation is a factor; GPS has a time dilation correction factor on the order of 50 nanoseconds
3) Vacuum, yes, perfect, not necessary. They've built atomic fountains with the vacuum technology currently available
4) How would you even tell?
Sorry, my quantum is pretty rusty and I sucked at it the first, and second, time around
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It's explained in https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kessel_Run
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https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/novdec-2020/...
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Do you think it was a script error that nerds eventually “fixed”, or was actually correct from the start? I quite like the idea of the ships “speed” being a function of how tightly it can travel through hyperspace.
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The script was written by Lucas intentionally incorrect as a way of telegraphing that Han was a BSer. The nerds came along later with a concocted scenario where Han would have been mostly correct.
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RE: Standard Weights and Measures
Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?
-Dik
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Speaking of Westerns in space, Battle Beyond the Stars is basically The Magnificent Seven shifted in time and space; in fact, Robert Vaughan plays the exact same character in both movies, although they have different names. Sybil Danning is in BYTS, so it also has that going for it. Otherwise TMS is a way better movie. Oh, and Magnificent Seven is likewise based on a samurai movie, "The Seven Samurai," naturally
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Ahh, that makes more sense. He was originally more of a crook and a scammer. "Han Shot First" and all that.
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back to the last on subject reply, thx IRStuff ...
1) Yes, I know atomic clocks are hyper accurate. But do we know the frequency to that accuracy ? Isn't frequency derived from some physical constants (like Planck's constant) ? How accurately do we know these ?? And yes I know that if Planck's constant were a little different then the universe would be very different.
2) Yes, I know this . I'm suggesting that this'll impact hyper accurate measures. Unless we are defining the Terrain meter and second. Of course what else are we sensibly doing here on Terra, but the program seemed to be suggesting these would be universal measures.
3) and 4) yes, I know these are tiny effects but when you're trying to be hyper accurate, then molehills become mountains.
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We essentially define the frequency and time together; Planck's constant or any other constants are bypassed.
What this means is that when the cesium atom is at the right temperature, etc., and excited with the appropriate radiation, the transition of the hyperfine levels has a frequency of 9192631770 Hz.
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As IR said, we don't need to know it, we only have to assume it's constant in the area where the standards are used. Which suggests that there should be a footnote in all standards to that effect (akin to the lawyer-speak in TV medication adverts, "your mileage may vary, not applicable in areas where h is non-constant...")
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Its a bit like imperial going metric. Its all been metric for years.
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You can get *very* deep in the weeds.
For measuring time & frequency, I recommend reading the NIST Handbook of Frequency Stability Analysis.
For measuring basic mechanical quantities (flatness, straightness, roundness, concentricity, etc) I recommend Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Wayne R. Moore. Or watching a bunch of Tom Lipton's Youtube channel, eg how to measure a straightedge with a precision level. More modern devices like electronic autocollimators and interferometry are also used.
Most of the fundamental properties of the universe don't seem to vary much (if at all) on a local scale. It's possible to measure a few varying, such as the effects of gravitational time dilation due to differences in the Earth's mass, eg as [Tom Van Baak did by carrying an atomic clock up Mt Rainer and leaving a twin at home](http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005). But most of the constants do seem to be constant within the local region (Earth & near surroundings), not variable.