2008/10/20 by Thomas Schücker, Thomas Schucker, Schucker, Thomas
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Historical and Scientific Studies #Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis #physics.gen-ph #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.3512
arxiv created 2008/10/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
On october 21st 1983 took place in Sèvres on the western outskirts of Paris the official funeral of the meter. With it the notion of distance as a physical observable was buried.