I love me some intersectionality. Especially that of Art & Science !
Photographer Greg White has composed seven photos for the seven base units of the metric system (distance, mass, time, brightness, temperature, current, amount of microscopic items to scale up to macroscopic). To make an aesthetic and informative single shot about science is an amazing accomplishment. Hats off! (I want to order a set of seven pictures with accompanying explainers to put up in my classroom, but no one has created that yet. Hmm...)
Check out the complete collect at Mr. White's website, but here is one exemplar:
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| Speed of Light Determines distance |
This art comes at timely point in the evolution of metrology as these seven base units (upon which all other units and therefore, measurement, are based) are no longer defined by arbitrary templates created by humans. They are, instead, now completely determined by the fundamental constants that we find in nature (e.g. Speed of light, Planck's Constant, Avogadro's number). Seven constant of nature for seven base units of measurement:
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| https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/meet-constants |
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