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Re:2019 redefinition of the SI base units by lopmotr on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:03PM (#20330194)
None of them are really fundamental. Some people feel that force is more fundamental than mass since force seems to be a "real" thing that happens while mass is just an abstract quantity that helps us predict forces. It's all human psychology, practical issues with measurement, and legacy. Quite a few of the base units are entirely redundant (candela, kelvin, mole) but we have them because of our human weaknesses.

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