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Subject: Speed of light
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 02:06:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 02:06:00 1983
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From:  Keith F. Lynch <KFL @ MIT-MC>


        [Submitted to physics by dciem!ntt]
        "According to next month's issue of Science 83, the participants in the
        international Geneva Conference on Weights and Measures in October will
        adopt a new definition of the meter; it will be the distance travelled
        by light in 1/299792458 of a second (in a vacuum, I presume)."
 
  So after that date any scientist who thinks he is measuring the speed
of light is actually doing nothing of the sort.  He is measuring the
length of the meter!
  Isn't it amazing how much of 'reality' is made by such means?