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  1. Newsgroups: alt.cesium
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!news.service.uci.edu!ucivax!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!peri
  3. From: peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri)
  4. Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep12.045918.13611@cco.caltech.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: sandman
  8. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  9. References: <18mi2eINN8e3@agate.berkeley.edu> <mDr-L=+@engin.umich.edu> <5509@dove.nist.gov>
  10. Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:59:18 GMT
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  13. gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:
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  15. >The meter is defined as the distance light travels in
  16. >1/299,792,458 of a second in a vacuum in an inertial reference frame.
  17.  
  18. And just where do they get an inertial reference frame for measuring
  19. the speed of light in a vacuum???
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  21.                         --  Michal
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