25 years ago: the official farewell to the meter
General Physics
2008-10-21 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
On october 21st 1983 took place in S\`evres on the western outskirts of Paris the official funeral of the meter. With it the notion of distance as a physical observable was buried.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3512,
title = {25 years ago: the official farewell to the meter},
author = {Thomas Schucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3512},
year = {2008}
}