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Re: How long is a chain?
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 08:04:47 +1000, "Chris Downs"
<cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>A yard would have to be travelling at a speed approaching the speed of light
>before it would be longer than a metre. I'll put my money on 1 chain = 22
>yards = 20.1m.
>
No, no... the Fitzgerald effect is a contraction. If a metre were
travelling at about 122 million metres per second it would be the same
length as a yard at rest.
GL