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- From: positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas)
- Subject: Re: Time and our heroic element
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 18:26:07 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- I stand corrected here. In 1983, the 17th General Conference on Weights
- and Measures fixed the speed of light at 299,792,458 m/s. I had thought
- that they did this by redefining the second as being the time it takes
- light to travel 299,792,458 meters, when in fact they redefined the meter
- as being the distance light will travel in 1/299,792,458 seconds.
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- __/\__ Jonathan S. Haas | Jake liked his women the way he liked
- \ / University of Michigan | his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-
- /_ _\ positron@engin.umich.edu | fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and
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