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Subject: Re: Speed of light
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 04:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 19 04:21:00 1983
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From:  Robert W. Kerns <RWK%SCRC-TENEX@MIT-MC>

    Date: 19 August 1983 02:06 EDT
    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?

Funny; I had though it was already so defined.  Does anybody
know how a second is defined?
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