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Weights and measures form an essential part of our ingrained view of the world. It is just about impossible to function effectively without some internalized system of measurement. In this volume, I outline a history of the science of measurement, and the origin of the International System of Units ('SI'). The simplicity and coherence of the Metric System is outlined, and we see how a system of weights and measures, based on only seven fundamental quantities, can be used as the basis of all science. We will soon witness a redefinition of four of the seven fundamental quantities upon which the SI is based. This change in how we all define a number of fundamental quantities will not be subject to any discussion or appeal, humanity will be presented with a fait accompli. What will this mean for us?

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Soon every scientific text and curriculum worldwide will have to be rewritten, as the basic language of science - the SI system of units - is fundamentally reformed. All will then rely upon universal physical constants, and the conception of the 18th Century savants who conceived the whole grand idea (evolved through the Metre Convention into the present SI system) will finally be fully realised. Snag is, the definition of those units will then be nigh-on incomprehensible to anyone except a physicist. And there will be no appeal. Jeffrey Williams, former Editor of the journal Metrologia and head of publications at the Bureau Internationale des poids et mesures, which administers the SI System for the world, explains it brilliantly (and not without a certain mordant humour) in his comprehensive and clearly, for him, cathartic historical treatment. - Geoscientist, May 2015

"""Soon every scientific text and curriculum worldwide will have to be rewritten, as the basic language of science - the SI system of units - is fundamentally reformed. All will then rely upon universal physical constants, and the conception of the 18th Century savants who conceived the whole grand idea (evolved through the Metre Convention into the present SI system) will finally be fully realised. Snag is, the definition of those units will then be nigh-on incomprehensible to anyone except a physicist. And there will be no appeal. Jeffrey Williams, former Editor of the journal Metrologia and head of publications at the Bureau Internationale des poids et mesures, which administers the SI System for the world, explains it brilliantly (and not without a certain mordant humour) in his comprehensive and clearly, for him, cathartic historical treatment."" - Geoscientist, May 2015"

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