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A single calibration ties together MQ’s fundamental reference uncertainties
The fundamental length, mass, and time calculations share the inverse fine-structure input and its covariance.
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CHICAGO — source review records a coherent numerical set of fundamental length, mass, and time references calibrated through the 2022 recommended inverse fine-structure input. Their International System of Units realizations are expressed in meters, kilograms, and seconds. The reference values carry propagated source-input uncertainties within the MQ calculation.
Figure 1 summarizes the source result and its evidentiary scope.
The result and its scope
Common source
2022 inverse fine-structure calibration
Correlated references
Length, mass and time in SI units
Evidence boundary
Propagated input error excludes model discrepancy
The three uncertainties share an upstream calibration. Treating them as independent measurements would misstate the uncertainty of a product, ratio, or derived constant. Correlation must remain attached when those references are propagated into further expressions.
The stated errors also exclude an independently estimated theory-discrepancy contribution. They quantify sensitivity to the supplied input under the adopted defining relations. They do not establish how accurately nature follows those relations or whether an omitted realization effect is negligible.
This calibration organization is a reproducibility result for the constants program. It allows different manuscripts to use the same reference set and exposes incompatible mixtures of input editions. The October source date identifies the recorded construction, rather than a new laboratory determination of fundamental measures or an independently established minimum interval in nature.
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