Yeah, okay, I seem to be getting tons of messages (and comments) about this subject. What I thought were common well-defined definitions were, apparantly, not as defined as I thought.
For all of you out there who claim we can't know how far something is because DISTANCE is undefined, or because TIME is unknown, watch this video.
RESOURCES:
Wonderful summary of Time keeping and definitions of Time:
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html
History of Measurement and Metrics
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/WEIGHTSandMEASURES/MetricHistory.html
International System of Units (SI)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/sipm.html
http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/physics/units.html
Please make sure your definitions are set straight.
This is, indeed, quite frustrating.
And thank you for websnarf, for being such a darling and helping me out with math, divisions and double-checking my base-divisors at 3:30 in the morning.
Enjoy your time, and most importantly:
Keep asking questions.
((Just make sure you ask ones that get you tinking towards progress ;) ))
~moo
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