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- From: KARLIN@BNLCL6.BNL.GOV (P.L. Cowan)
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Re: Re: Time and our heroic element
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.170059.6103@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 17:00:59 GMT
- References: <18mi2eINN8e3@agate.berkeley.edu> <mDr-L=+@engin.umich.edu> <5509@dove.nist.gov> <1992Sep12.045918.13611@cco.caltech.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: peri@cco.caltech.edu's message of Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:59:18 GMT
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- In <1992Sep12.045918.13611@cco.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu writes:
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- : gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:
- :
- : >The meter is defined as the distance light travels in
- : >1/299,792,458 of a second in a vacuum in an inertial reference frame.
- :
- : And just where do they get an inertial reference frame for measuring
- : the speed of light in a vacuum???
- :
- : -- Michal
- :
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- I used to work at NBS. As I recall the Inertial Reference Frame was painted
- yellow and was kept in the basement of C-wing of Building 221. When they
- weren't using it to measure metre sticks I used to borrow it to lift heavy
- objects.
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- Oh, BTW the yellow paint contained ... CESIUM.
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