Accurate to one yoctogram
Posted 04.02.2012 at 4:35 pm
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A group of scientists at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have created a new scale (and process for weighing) that increases the accuracy of small-scale, um, scales to new heights. Their new scale, which uses short nanotubes at very low temperatures, was able to measure the vibration of items down to a single yoctogram, one septillionth of a gram. For some (possible helpful) scale (that word again!), a single proton weighs 1.7 yoctograms. The scale could be used in the future for medical diagnostics as well as research. [via Nature]
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Great, now I can bemoan my weight to the 30'th decimal.
Badum-tsssss.
You be funny, ROFL, thank you.
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Open your mind and see!
I'd like to buy two yoctograms of proton, please. I'm making a new flavored milkshake. What's shipping on that?
You know; I don't even want to convert that for SAE adaptation. And as for metric; who the hell thought it would be a good idea to set the weight of a single proton at something stupid like 1.7 anything? See, that's what SAE is really great for. Instead of the metric 1.7 yoctograms, we just call it 1 something or other, or 2 something or other. Seriously, it ain't like anyone's gonna run around with an electron micrometer measuring them and then re-installing them in my car headlight. A 2 something or other wrench will still work just fine on a 1.7 yoctogram proton. Geez.