The metric system rocks, right? And that's because it's an organic system of measure, derived directly from the circumference of the earth, right? And hasn't been subject to any malingering, gerrymandering, finagling or other debased punking by dirty human hands, right? Um, not exactly.

Last May the CDF collaboration
published their
observation of the
baryon, a particle made by a very exotic "bss" quark triplet. The CDF result came almost one year after a similar measurement was
published by the competitor experiment, D0.