Brian Barker wrote: >> The kilometre [...] is currently determined by the wavelength of >> light emitted by the kry[p]ton-86 items. > > Sorry, but for the avoidance of confusion, you are thirty years out of > date. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as the distance > travelled by light _in vacuo_ in a specified time. This has the > effect of *defining* the value of the speed of light, of course.
It's still tied to a physical constant. Now, what's the speed of dark? ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
