Tuesday, July 21, 2009

bet ya's didnt know that

The metre is the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in the fraction 1/299 792 458 of a second (the speed of light being 299 792 458 ms-1)

One second is taken as the time for 9 129 631 770 oscillations of a caesium-133 atom


2 comments:

Alberto Einstein said...

MC, you are amazing, no wonder i named my theory after you

E=mc^2

mc said...

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