The trouble with specifying a mass in this way is that the mass of anything (say hydrogen) which will fill a sphere of radius '1' is dependent on the temperature and pressure at which it is measured. I agree that the physical quantity MASS is important and that we should be looking out for its definition. Would it not come in a form similar to the following - The mass of a photon of the energy which the message is transmitted at. - The mass of a single atom of the simplest element (Hydrogen) Pete