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capture the energy of lightning anon

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I'm glad this thread survived.
Kept forgetting to dump

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Why is a meter defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second?

What is the significance of this number(299,792,458)?

Why not define the speed of light as something like 1,000,000,000 meters per second, making the meter the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/1,000,000,000 of a second?

The meter seems more arbitrary than using some guy's foot for a basis of measurement.

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/sci/, I was recently accepted to a prestigious university, which career is more useful/better to pursue: Physics or MechE. I like physics better, meche seems safer. General Physics/MechE discussion thread

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