It was around 1998 when having read about the width of the Parthenon being an arc second of Earth's perimeter, I thought of converting the speed of light value from meters/sec to Parthenon feet per second. The outcome was 970830499. This looked like a dead end, but for some reason I divided by 600 turning this into stadiums per second. So the outcome was:

c = 1618051 stadiums/second

The golden mean popped up.

phi1 = 1.618033989

This led me to define the photon stadium (S) as follows

S = phi2 x c mircoseconds = 0.618033989 x 299792458 m/sec x (sec x 10^-6) = 185.2819 meters

A photon stadium is the golden mean of the length light travels in a vacuum in a millionth of a second of time.

The golden mean of 1 is phi2:

phi2 = 1/phi1 = [root(5)-1]/2 = 0.618033989


If we divide by 600 we get the photon foot (f):

f = S/600 = 0.3088032 meters

If we used the volumetric mean radius of the Earth then 1 arc second of Earth's perimeter leads to a foot of 0.308875 meters. The Earth Meridian yields a value of about 0.3087 meters.



Post Edited (16-Feb-12 21:20)