Jay Leno's quip about this was "So what. The power companies in
California bring light to a halt in whole sections of a city at a time!"
No, the "old" definition is still good. That hinges on the speed of
light in a vacuum, not in a material substance as this experiment used.
Jim
Gregory Peterson wrote:
>
> This was in Monday's Globe and Mail.
>
> The tongue and cheek nature of the article aside: If this is true, could this now
>mean a new definition for the metre is required?
>
> greg
>
> Lights! Inaction!
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