POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 21:17:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: KalleK
Date: 9 Nov 2007 12:43:28
Message: <47349c40$1@news.povray.org>
>> Ur, no. The speed of light in a vacuum doesn't vary at all. It's a 
>> universal
>> constant.
>>
>> 299 792 458 m.s^-1
> 
> ....
> 
> How the HECK did they measure that o_O

It's defined that way: one meter is the 1/299 792 458 part of what light 
travels in one second in vacuum...

(Well one meter was defined differently in former times...)

kk


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