Re: A. Einstein and science-fairs

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

The attached is an excerpt from the following page of the NIST site.  They
take c as a defined value.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: Cliff Parker <cparker@EMPOWERING.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: A. Einstein and science-fairs
> . . .
> I am always willing to be corrected, but as far as I know there is no
such
> thing as a definition for the speed of light.  There are accepted values
based
> on old definitions of length.  We have defined the meter based on the
speed of
> light, but to my way of thinking that does not mean that the speed of
light
> has therefore been defined.
> . . .
> Cliff Parker

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