I love stuff like this so much. You take something as seemingly complex as time or weight and it ends up boiling down to like a handful of people diligently cru

I love stuff like this so much. You take something as seemingly complex as time or weight and it ends up boiling down to like a handful of people diligently crunching numbers or a hunk of exactly 1 KG of platinum sitting in the basement of some French lab. Dispelling the "magic" behind these things utterly fascinates me.