Jim, Well, if there were ever an opportunity to anoint the new unit of mass with a prefix-less name, this would be it.
What are the chances? And is there any activity along those lines at all? thanks, Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 3:36:37 PM Subject: [USMA:49886] New BIPM web page on the "New SI" Dear Colleagues, I would like to call your attention to a new web page concerning the "New SI" at http://www.bipm.org that consolidates several papers on this topic. This is meant to be an educational body of work to prepare the public for what is intended to be a redefinition of SI base units. The actual page, which indexes and links to those documents is at http://www.bipm.org/en/si/new_si/ Implementation of that redefinition awaits refinement of some experimental determinations, but the structure of the proposed new base unit definitions are now well settled. Since this will be a rather major change, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and its Consultative Committee on Units (CCU) recommend that education of the public should start now, even while the refinement of the fundamental values is taking place. It is thus intended that educators, authors, and others should be prepared to incorporate the new definitions in their materials and will not be caught unaware when the actual change takes place. This new BIPM page serves the purpose of meeting that intent by providing illustrative articles. Regards, James R. Frysinger (Jim) Chair, IEEE SCC 14 Vice Chair, IEEE/ASTM Joint Committee for Maintaining SI 10 Deputy Technical Advisor, U.S. TAGs to ISO/TC 12 and IEC/TC 25 -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108
