Re: [Epic] Will it, won't it...

From: Greg Lane <greg_at_...>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:03:17 -0500

J Andrew Evans wrote:

> Colen McAlister wrote:
>
> > One fine day in the middle of the night, Elias Tiliakos wrote:
> >
> > >HAVE YOU NO CONCEPTION OF METER????????
> >
> > AFAIK, the meter is defined by the speed of light, and is approximately
> > 100 cm long. However, this may be what you meant. What did you mean? :P
> >
>
> The metre used to be defined by the length of a metal pole held at a
> particular temperature and pressure etc in an Institute in France. They
> might have changed it but no one told me.
>
> A#

Yep, they changed it to a distance prescribed by a certain number of
wavelenghts of a specified pure light laser source within a vacuum ... held
at the National Bureau of Standards labs in Boulder Colorado ... ooops they
changed the lab's name to the Dept of Commerce labs ...IIRC.

Greg
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