• Morlark@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    Literally the entire point of the comment that you’re responding to is that it isn’t true for the metre, and it isn’t true for any SI units.

    Your entire claim of tautology rests on the assertion that the speed of light is defined by something external to light itself. That’s false. It remains false irrespective of which SI measurements you swap in.

    Just because the speed of light can be expressed in terms of SI units, doesn’t mean its definition depends on them. Which is the point that wolframhydroxide was making.

    This directly disproves your original assertion of tautology.

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      1 day ago

      Every metric of speed of light is necessarily relative to other things. Even if you define as 1, now you must be able to know what one unit of time is relative to one unit of distance, and if you do not know that then you do not know that your speed of 1 means.

      All fundamental units are defined relative to each other in physics, and all other units are defined relative to the fundamental units.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

      definition of base units

      Even the Cesium time standard is defined relative to electric fields which are defined by time and distance and charges, and charges are defined by energy defined by force defined by time and distance and more…