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To: dirtboy

1. Time required for light to travel 299,792,458 meters.

Alternatively:

2. The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.


9 posted on 08/20/2009 8:32:33 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
2. The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.

At what temperature?

10 posted on 08/20/2009 8:33:41 AM PDT by dirtboy
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