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

From: Greg Lane <greg_at_...>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 16:51:38 -0500

J Andrew Evans wrote:

> Greg Lane wrote:
>
> > J Andrew Evans wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> Quite correct. It all comes back to me now. Ah . . . as you get older the
> memory starts to go.
>
> A#

Actually, it comes and goes ... I might not have remembered this if it had been
tomorow! But, since I woudl forget that I didn't remember it would be ok in the
long run ... I wouldn't suffer too much.

Greg
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