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YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to grab your chance and send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Thursday, May 23, 2019 Ramadan 18, 1440 AH Doha today 290 - 390 The kilogram is redefined for the first time in 130 years. P4-5 REVIEW BACK PAGE Wilde’s directorial debut A British Da’ee loves the way is a brilliant love letter Qatar embraces Ramadan. to freindship. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, May 23, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.18am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.47am Zuhr (noon) 11.32am Asr (afternoon) 2.58pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.17pm Isha (night) 7.47pm USEFUL NUMBERS Ishq Two youngsters try hard to fi nd joy after they lose out on DIRECTION: Anorag Manohar love and their need for a mutual trust to sustain love and CAST: Shane Nigam, Ann Sheetal, Shine Tom Chacko happiness. 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Only for QR280 per person. cultural similarities between Qatar and India. Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building After School Activities WHEN: Wednesday – Monday WHERE: Atelier Learn the movements of dance styles in WHEN: Ongoing Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Music and arts activities for students instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard taking place after they fi nish their day in for adults as well kids and move in the world school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- of music. For details, contact 66523871/ hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, May 23, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Kilogram redefined The kilogram has been redefined not by another object, but by a fundamental property of nature known as Planck’s constant. Like the speed of light, the value of Planck’s constant cannot fluctuate — it is built with exquisite precision precision into the very fabric of the universe, writes Deborah Netburn n a subterranean vault in a suburb of Paris lies a small, rarely seen metal cylinder known as Le Grand K. For 130 years, this golf- Iball-sized hunk of 90% platinum and 10% iridium has served as the international prototype kilogram. That means it was the single physical object by which all other kilograms across the planet were measured. If microscopic contaminants in the air caused Le Grand K to grow a bit heavier, the kilogram itself grew a bit heavier. If a rigorous cleaning or small scratch caused it to become ever so slightly lighter, the kilogram itself became lighter as well. Indeed, it is estimated that over the course of its lifetime, Le Grand K has lost 50 micrograms of mass. But the long reign of Le Grand K has come to an end. Starting Monday, the kilogram has been redefi ned not by another object, but by a fundamental property of nature known as Planck’s constant. Like the speed of light, the value of Planck’s constant cannot fl uctuate — it is built with exquisite precision into the very fabric of the universe. “Unlike a physical object, a fundamental constant doesn’t change,” said Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md. “Now a kilogram will have the same mass whether you are on Earth, on Mars or in the Andromeda galaxy.” Researchers who have devoted their lives to the science of measurement say the new defi nition of the kilogram — and similar changes to the mole (which measures quantities of Now a kilogram will very small particles), the ampere (which measures electrical charge) have the same mass and the kelvin (which measures temperature) — represents a whether you are on profound turning point for Earth, on Mars or humanity.