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spzb
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Aren't those measures of distance?
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gberger
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Yes, but the data travels at approximately the speed of light, so you can just drop the "light" unit in front of the time units
spzb
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But where’s the fun of pedantry in that?
cygx
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Sure, but conversion to travel time is trivial given a signal velocity of c. Or just assume a 'natural' system of units where c=1 :p
argvargc
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Delete "light" and it's the answer.
emayljames
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Yeah, it takes me 2 trainhours to get to work.
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