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Re: coulomb madness!
From: John H. Couture[SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 1997 7:55 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: coulomb madness!
At 05:20 AM 9/19/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>From: Phil Chalk[SMTP:philoc-at-ozemail-dot-com.au]
>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 1997 5:19 PM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: coulomb madness!
>
>Tesla List wrote:
>[snip]
> When Clerk Maxwell was working on his great Treatise and
>> noted that
>> the speed of light was also about 3 x 10^9
>
>(It's slowed down by a factor of 10 since then !!)
>
>>
>[snip]
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. The speed of light and the
conversion ratio should be 3x 10^8 meters per second or 3 x 10^10 cm per
second.
Why can't I get it right ?
John Couture