Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: A New Measure: The revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System

Name: Heilborn Lectures: Bill Phillips: A New Measure: The revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System
Start: 2022-04-07T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-04-07T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Technological Institute, LR5

Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Technological Institute, LR5, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Abstract: The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since its origins during the French Revolution. The nature of this revolution is that all of the base units of the SI are now defined by fixing values of natural constants. This talk will recall some of the intriguing history of how units have been defined in the past, how it is now possible to define them by fixing constants of nature, and why it was necessary to do so.

Bill Phillips

NIST and the University of Maryland

This is lecture 2 of 3 in the 2022 Heilborn Lecture Series.
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Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Heilborn

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