Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

jrhodes@pupgg.princeton.edu
16 Oct 1995 22:50:10 GMT

In article <M.Fee.285.002A0A4B@irl.cri.nz>, M.Fee@irl.cri.nz (Mike Fee) writes:
>Consider also, Whayn; a "metre", and that is exactly how the French spell it
>(they should know), is a thing about 1 650 763.73 times the wavelength (in
>vacuum) of a particular electronic transition in the element Krypton. It is

Once again, thats no longer the definition of a meter. It is
defined in terms of the speed of light. Check your facts.

Jason