"There's a long way to go from a microscopic mass of an atom to something you can take to the supermarket to guarantee that when you buy a kilogram of sugar, it's a kilogram," says Steven Cundiff, a physicist at JILA.
"If it's 5 kilograms or 500 kilograms, that's not a normal thing to transfer," he said in an interview.
Usually it's 20 kilograms for a suitcase and 5 kilograms for a bag on board.
Appropriate MKS or SI units for angular momentum are kilogram metres squared per second (kg-m2/sec).
"It's hundreds of kilograms that would be needed, versus a few tens of kilograms at 90percentt," said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that tracks nuclear proliferation.
It's like two kilograms, and when it's move like this (side to side) it disturbed me.
In the past, Seth Lloyd, a quantum-mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has employed the laws of quantum mechanics, relativity, and thermodynamics to estimate the ultimate capacity of a computer with a mass of a kilogram (it's big, really big).
It's not much just 6 kilograms per second but there's water vapor coming off two regions of Ceres, the solar system's largest asteroid.
"If it's more than 2 kilograms there is a chance.
At 5.75 kg it was over a kilogram lighter than the bike Moser would use to fly through the 50km barrier, lighter than "Old Faithful", or the Corima Cougar Boardman used in Bordeaux, or any of the bikes on which the "best performance" Hour was set.
And, remember, it's a million dollars a kilogram!" Tour turned to his lab manager, Paul Cherukuri, and said, "We're going to be rich someday, aren't we?" As Cherukuri laughed, Tour added, "I'm going to come in here and count money every day".
