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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: degrees Celsius
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In article <1997Jan25.194821.2051@sq.com>,
msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
> 
> [As most people reading this thread must know, after its initial definition
> based on the half-meridian, the meter was redefined in terms of a physical
> standard meter, then again in terms of waves of light, then again in terms
> of the second and the speed of light.  The second was initially defined
> based on the average length of the day, then redefined in terms of the
> length of a particular year, then again in terms of waves of light.]

So when God said "Let there be light!" this had far deeper ramifications
than the old scribes could have dreamt of.  Now all they need to do is
define mass in terms of light too, which is perhaps not at all unreasonable.
