{"id":15548,"date":"2014-12-11T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15548"},"modified":"2014-12-11T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:00:27","slug":"everything-is-awesome-when-youre-a-part-of-the-measurement-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15548","title":{"rendered":"Everything is Awesome, When You&#039;re a Part of the Measurement Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/533401\/how-to-measure-plancks-constant-using-lego\/\">How To Measure Planck\u2019s Constant Using Lego<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Planck\u2019s constant comes in because of an historical idiosyncrasy in the way power units have been defined. Since 1990, almost all electrical measurements have been calibrated using a system of units in which Planck\u2019s constant, along with various other constants, are defined rather than measured.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, mechanical power relies on ordinary SI units, which rely on a measured value of Planck\u2019s constant. \u201cBy comparing electrical power in conventional units to mechanical power in SI units, h can be determined,\u201d say Chao and co.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Measure Planck\u2019s Constant Using Lego Planck\u2019s constant comes in because of an historical idiosyncrasy in the way power units have been defined. Since 1990, almost all electrical measurements have been calibrated using a system of units in which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}