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The speed of light is a defined exact number
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Since 1983 the metre is defined so that light travels 299,792,458 metres per second exactly — a constant of nature promoted to a fixed integer. Worked & sealed by the engine — c = 299,792,458 m/s (exact). [HOLDS; open the seal to re-check.]
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adjoining cards
- on the shelf of → The Works — sealed, worked demonstrations — a member of the the-works shelf in the keeping
- paves → The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God — A worked, engine-sealed demonstration — a paving-stone of the floor of reality.
- demonstrates → c = 299,792,458 m/s (exact) — A worked demonstration in the same field (physical_constants).
- demonstrates → Speed of light = 299792458.0 m/s — A worked demonstration in the same field (physical_constants).
- demonstrates → Avogadro constant = 6.02214076e+23 1/mol — A worked demonstration in the same field (physical_constants).
- adjacent → The energy in a single green photon — Neighbouring worked demonstrations in the same part of the volume.
- adjacent → The wave equation for sound — Neighbouring worked demonstrations in the same part of the volume.
- adjacent → A radioactive clock's decay constant — Neighbouring worked demonstrations in the same part of the volume.
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