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qsdf38100 | 1 year ago

Speed of light has recently been redefined, and is now _exactly_ 299792458 m/s. It’s no longer a measurement, it’s a definition.

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hollerith|1 year ago

That's a little misleading: either the meter or the second has been redefined to make c = 299792458 m/s.

ghkbrew|1 year ago

The second is (and has been) defined independent of length for a while. It's the time it takes for a certain number oscillations of a caesium atom.

The meter was redefined as the distance light travels in a specific time. So you could say that either the meter or the speed of light was redefined to make the speed of light a round constant, but not the second.