After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed.
Five minutes after them it is the turn of the unfortunate team charged with measuring the height of the flames and mapping the fireline in order to calculate how fast it is moving all without inhaling too much smoke as they go.
When I talked to Krupp a day after the panel he said one of the big challenges was just measuring methane emissions from fracking and determining the break-even point where any fugitive emissions would not exceed the carbon savings from replacing coal.
At the end of the book and after an extended exploratory quest, she is still single and judging the men she dates, no one measuring up to the new yardstick she has created.