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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 83 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Gold makes for an awful standard due to thermal expansion, but I feel this is more a historical artefact than an actual standard.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Right? Didn't they define the kilogram, make identical copies of the standard, sent them to different countries, then after years, reunited them and found they all diverged in mass?

And now they have made a perfect silicon sphere with the same mass as the standard kilogram, then counted all the atoms. So now we know the exact mass in silicon atoms of a kilo.

Let's just define tagliatelle in light nanoseconds and be done with it.

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Since 2019, the kg is just defined in terms of the Plank constant and some math with the resonant frequency of cesium as well as the speed of light. There was too much variability in anything physical so they decided to just fix some constants at whatever value they were close to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SI

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] subtext@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The redefinition of the mole in 2019, as being the amount of substance containing exactly 6.02214076×10^23 particles

Since the 2019 SI redefinition, avogadro’s number is a constant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant

Edit: looks like we were both right! I was reading through your link and it seems the work reported by the NIST led to the exact definitions for Avogadro’s number and the Planck constant.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They counted the atoms?
Didn't they just took the mol mass and calculated it? (Not sure if mol mass is the right term... School chemistry is a long time ago...)
And I don't see how we even should be able to count them.
Would be really interested, if it happened that way, how they did it.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They gave up on that plan. Defining Plank's constant happened first. It could still be done as a secondary confirmation, but it's less of a race now to get away from K

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

This is Italy, it's got have style.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagliatelle

Tagliatelle (Italian: [taʎʎaˈtɛlle] ⓘ; from the Italian word tagliare, meaning 'to cut') are a traditional type of pasta from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Marche. Individual pieces of tagliatelle are long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are traditionally about 6 mm (1⁄4 in) wide.[1] Tagliatelle can be served with a variety of sauces, though the classic is a meat sauce or Bolognese sauce.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Looks like it says 8mm in the picture

[–] Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The camera is known to put on a few mm

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Mamma Mia 8

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Thanks I had no idea what it was.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 30 points 10 months ago

Is that the skin you unlock if you made 1 million tagliatelle?

[–] Arigion@feddit.org 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah. Good. Now we can calculate the optimal amount of ketchup to pour over them. I also like them uncooked on pineapple pizza. Yummy.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me of this video that shows how Italian food is a recent invention https://youtu.be/iZZfwyKa0Lc

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A lot of "traditional" national foods are like that, especially if you consider pre-columbian food traditions. If you just limit it to chocolate, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, potatoes, and beans, none of which were used or available in Europe until after importation, you see that it gets murky pretty quickly. Funny how we associate potatoes with Ireland, tomatoes with Italy, and chocolate with Switzerland when they're actually all indigenous American foods.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

The tartiflette, a very popular traditional meal from Savoy in the Alps, was invented in the 70s !

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Beans are native to Europe.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One "bean" is native to Europe. The fava or horse bean to be specific.

Pretty shocking, eh?

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Well I never.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

"I need to steal... The golden Tagliatelle"

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Hey......I know some of those words! Not all of them....but some!

[–] jwt@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

It looks extremely al dente.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 4 points 10 months ago

It's the ultimate fettuccine noodle. No more measley gold leaf in my Alfredo anymore.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

But does it come with breadsticks?

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I picture the security guard at the building there dealing with this one guy who loves tagliatelle but is a total tagliatelle snob, and he keeps ordering it when he goes out but then he comes to rhe Palazzo and he's obsessed, wants to check every noodle against the gold standard, thinks he's being gang stalked, knows the Palazzo asked him not to return but he keeps coming back.