Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:53:43 -0500 From: "Vijay Kaul" <vkaul@ma.rr.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Speed of light? [was Re: GPL vs BSD Licence] Message-ID: <opsgt8rtl0koo9zg@gogobera.ma.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEJIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEJIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:45:16 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad@stop.mail-abuse.org] >> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:32 PM >> To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> Cc: chat@freebsd.org >> Subject: RE: GPL vs BSD Licence >> >> >> At 3:05 PM -0800 2004-10-31, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> <-snip-> > I say the speed of light is so-and-so many miles per second well, I'm > right, right? No. It depends on how strong any gravitational > fields happen to be that are near what I'm observing. In short, > contextual understanding. <-snip-> IANAPhysicist but, isn't the speed of light in a vacuum constant? Well, it may be being actively debated by cosmologists attempting to explain the origins of the universe; but, VSL aside... the speed of light is 2.998something x10^8 m/s in vacuum. Sorry, but this is chat, and I figured I ask. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
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