You take a material like silver and put it in a glass case and that's the definition of a meter.

你拿某种材料,比如银,把它放进玻璃柜里,那是一米的定义

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Using this phenomenon physicists have been able to transfer -- or in effect teleport -- the properties of one particle to another, in the case of atoms over a distance of about half a meter, in the case of photons over tens of kilometers.

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As a case in point, 400 meter dash sprinter Oscar Pistorius inspired millions by making it all the way to the Olympic semi-finals to run his greatest race as a double amputee.

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