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Odd Bodkin wrote:

> On 4/22/2016 12:49 PM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> You may call the *numbers* random human choice. But 1 lightsecond per
>> second as value of c is certainly possible.
> 
> Not a lightsecond. Just a second. A second of distance. To get from a
> meter of distance to a second of distance, all you need is a conversion
> factor.

Your “second of distance” is equivalent to a light-second, therefore Thomas 
Heger is on the right track for a change: the meter is currently defined in 
terms of the speed of light in vacuum.  It is “the length of the path 
travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1∕299 792 458 of a 
second” [1] (and the second is currently defined as “the duration of 
9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition 
between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 
atom”; ibid.)
 
> Just like you'd convert miles to kilometers.

No, not like that.

> The conversion factor is 1 second = 300,000,000 m.

No; 1 light-second ≡ 299 792 458 m.

(You would also be well-advised not to use ambiguous thousands separators.  
Different countries use different delimiters – for example, in Thomas 
Heger’s supposed and mine the comma is used for the decimal point instead –, 
and this is an international newsgroup.)


PointedEars
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[1] <http://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/>
-- 
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A: It doesn't conduct itself.

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                Re: Particle Physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 13:55 -0500
              Re: Particle Physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-23 08:33 -0500
                Re: Particle Physics Dirk Van de moortel <dirkvandemoortel@hotspam.not> - 2016-04-23 15:53 +0200
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                Re: Particle Physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 06:07 -0500
                Re: Particle Physics Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-04-26 22:24 +0200

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