Somewhere outside of Sydney, Australia, a scientist named Katie Green is working

with Silicon. Silicon that took years to create in Russia and was grown into

pure crystalline form in Germany. She's using that silicon to create a new

weight and measure. A kilo, the perfect kilo, a sphere, the roundest sphere ever

created on earth. It's perfect and it weighs exactly a kilo. Today in Hastings

where I'm recording this, the weather was perfect, 40 degrees, cloudy raining,

cold, perfect for the ecosystem, the plants, the way nature needed it to be.

And about 50 years ago, guy named Bob Dylan recorded a record called like a

Rolling Stone. In a roundup a few years ago, Rolling Stone magazine picked it

as the perfect rock and roll song, the best one of the million that the critics

had listened to. Hey, it's Nathan Combe and this is a special archived episode

of a Kimbo. We're here to talk about perfect and quality. Here's the thing.

That sphere that Katie is working so hard to create, the one that will be

exactly a kilo. Of course, it can't be exactly a kilo. It will be off by an

atom or two. Even more profound though, while it is the roundest thing ever

created on earth, it's not as round as the earth is. If we blew Katie's fear

up to the size of the earth, it would be more rough and misshapen than the earth

itself, even if we count the Grand Canyon and the Mariana's trench. So no, it's not

perfect. It's just really, really close to what it's supposed to be. And what about

the weather? Well, if you were planning a picnic today, the weather is not even

close to perfect. And Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan is the first person to tell you he has

never recorded a song that's perfect. Timings are off, notes are out of tune. He

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