On Friday 20 September 2002 11:28 pm, you wrote:
> [rhinoceros]
> I am copy-pasting from the Usenet Physics FAQ archive:
>
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/speed_of_ligh
>t.html
>
> <snip>
>
> Is the c, speed of light in vacuum, constant?
>
> At the 1983 Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures the following SI
> (Systeme International) definition of the metre was adopted:
>
> "The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a
> time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. This defines the speed of light
> in vacuum to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s."
>
> This provides a very short answer to the question "Is c constant": Yes, c
> is constant by definition!
>
> <snip>
This seems like veyr bad science to me. Einstien did his work long before the
change in definition of a metre was introduced, therefore this definition
cannot really be used, can it?
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