Petersson@feddit.org to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoHow long is a meter? (Only weird answers/definitions allowed)message-squaremessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareHow long is a meter? (Only weird answers/definitions allowed)Petersson@feddit.org to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squareqantravon@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago“The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.” This is the actual definition, but it’s also pretty weird.
“The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.”
This is the actual definition, but it’s also pretty weird.