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To: dirtboy
"Originally the meter was equal to the length of a piece of metal kept alongside the kilogram, but in 1983 it was redefined as the distance light travels in a vacuum over 299,792,458ths of a second."

Now define a second.

A second is the amount of time it takes light to travel 299,792,458 meters.

Q.E.D.

31 posted on 08/20/2009 8:59:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: Lazamataz

Define a meter.


33 posted on 08/20/2009 9:00:35 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Lazamataz

In a vacuum.


34 posted on 08/20/2009 9:02:06 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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