12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
10:57 a.m.
--- Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
12 inches for a thousandth of a second sounds a little off...though
I'm too lazy to do the math...
It is... by about 10E03... light goes about 30cm in 1 ns, or about 12",
depending on medium (faster as photons in a vacuum than electrons down
an insulated wire).
Somebody wrote:
> 12 inch copper wire IIRC for MS
> > > [R. Adm Grace Hopper]... needing a wire a nanosecond (pico?)
> > > long.
> >
> >She used to pass them out in her presentations, Gene. They were
> >approximately 12" long.
> > - don
I was supposed to get an official DECUS nanosecond of Etherhose signed
(stamped) by her for making a presentation at a symposium but they never
sent me one.
-ethan
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