Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:12:50 +0000 From: Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Speed of light? [was Re: GPL vs BSD Licence] Message-ID: <200411030812.iA38CoYL001435@grovel.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Nov 2004 19:20:45 EST." <1099441245.761.6.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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[ massive trimming appied ] Mike Jeays writes: > Doesn't this equate to defining the speed of light as constant, and then > adjusting the metre and second appropriately? I thought the constancy > of the speed of light was a basic assumption taken by Einstein; the > slowing of time and reduction of lengths of moving objects, or those in > a gravitational field are a consequence. This is correct. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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