illectrility to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 4 months agoI don't even know what this means but I'm just gonna leave it right heresh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1576arrow-down120
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minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkEnglish11•edit-24 months ago1 what? Cucumber per nanosecond?
minus-squareTrantariuslinkfedilinkEnglish5•4 months agoActually, yes. Light travels about 30cm in a nanosecond, around the size of a cucumber.
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkEnglish1•4 months agoWhich is why I updated my comment from “banana per nanosecond”, which itself was originally updated from “apple per picosecond” that I just put there randomly, without any thought.
minus-square@kboy101222@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoIs there another way to measure the speed of light?
1 what? Cucumber per nanosecond?
1 speed of light of course.
Light-second per second
Actually, yes. Light travels about 30cm in a nanosecond, around the size of a cucumber.
Which is why I updated my comment from “banana per nanosecond”, which itself was originally updated from “apple per picosecond” that I just put there randomly, without any thought.
Is there another way to measure the speed of light?