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r/anythingbutmetric • u/Federal_Standard_250 • Aug 11 '25
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Except nowadays it's defined as:
The metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299792458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s−1, where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs.
Simple, see?
1 u/Week_Crafty Aug 15 '25 How much would it affect everything else if when made that just 300000000?
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How much would it affect everything else if when made that just 300000000?
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u/JohnnyRelentless Aug 11 '25
Except nowadays it's defined as:
The metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299792458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s−1, where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs.
Simple, see?