Sounds reasonable to me, John! Of course there are sure to be a few
tiny details to work out, but ....
Jim
On Friday 13 July 2001 1849, kilopascal wrote:
> 2001-07-13
>
> This is actually great news. If the means to measure times can be
> made 100 000 times or more more accurate, then that also improves the
> accuracy of the metre. The metre is defined relative to time,
> because the devices used to measure time are more accurate than other
> devices. The definition of the metre will still be the time light
> travels in 1/299 792 458 s, but with the means to measure the second
> to greater precision, means the metre will benefit by the same means.
....
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