Hi Steve,

Actually, in a vacuum light travels 11.80285268 inches per nanosecond. Not quite a whole foot. Of course, we could redefine the inch to be 1/12th the distance light travels in a vacuum in one nanosecond, but then someone would come up with a more accurate definition of one second and we'd just have to revisit the whole thing all over again.

Wait, someone did redefine the second as the time it takes light to travel 299792458 meters.

Like Yogi Bera said, "It's De Ja Vue all over again."

Concerning the original question, now we know why the the charge of one electron is 1.6021892E-19 Coulombs. Because we finally figured out that 1 Coulomb of charge (which directly related to that 1 Volt) has 6.241460122E18 of them in it.

But then some brainchild redefined electrical units such that charge is no longer considered a fundamental unit or some such nonsense.

See above Yogi Bera quote.