wolit@rabbit.UUCP (08/16/83)
[Submitted to net.physics by dciem!ntt] "According to next month's issue of Science 83, the participants in the international Geneva Conference on Weights and Measures in October will adopt a new definition of the meter; it will be the distance travelled by light in 1/299792458 of a second (in a vacuum, I presume)." Allow me to be the first to propose a new OFFICIAL bumper sticker: 299,792,458 m/s: It's not just a good idea, it the LAW! (I kinda think the old, English version had more going for it.) Jan Wolitzky, BTL Murray Hill