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I posted this first in Astronomy but it belongs in General Physics.
With a little research, anyone can convince himself or herself that the following statements are true:
a) that in one second light travels a distance equal to 30.0 times the distance between the north pole and the equator and;
b) that one second is the half-period of a one-metre pendulum.
Either the world is a truly mysterious creation or, much more likely, men defined the second so as to make these statements true. In the paper, I show how men could have done so, with technology that we would consider almost medieval.
Anyone who has ever noticed that c is uncannily close to 300,000 km per second in the SI system should read the paper. I use the word uncanny advisedly, given that the metre dates from 1799 and the second is prehistoric in origin.
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With a little research, anyone can convince himself or herself that the following statements are true:
a) that in one second light travels a distance equal to 30.0 times the distance between the north pole and the equator and;
b) that one second is the half-period of a one-metre pendulum.
Either the world is a truly mysterious creation or, much more likely, men defined the second so as to make these statements true. In the paper, I show how men could have done so, with technology that we would consider almost medieval.
Anyone who has ever noticed that c is uncannily close to 300,000 km per second in the SI system should read the paper. I use the word uncanny advisedly, given that the metre dates from 1799 and the second is prehistoric in origin.
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