Actually I have a nanosecond somewhere around here. Really. And I thought it was closer to 9 inched than foot. It was given to me by Dr. Grace Hopper (Navy, Admiral, "bug", look her up) when she retired and worked at Digital. She gave out wires cut to a nanosecond length to demonstrate to hardware designers how much time the circuit they were designing would take. Of course this was more important when circuits weren't microscopic.