NASA found something cool?

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Post by CABAListic »

@betajaen: You're right, that can't be correct. The 140 years must refer to something else. 27000 light years mean 27000 years before the observation reaches us, no quantum effect could help with that. (Only thing that might would be if they had also discovered a worm hole, but that would be a discovery of an entirely different scale :) ) I'll assume that 140 years mean that the images they received of the supernova are from when it was 140 years old (?).

[Edit] Well, you edited faster than I could post, it appears. Never mind :)
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Post by betajaen »

I'm glad I spotted it and figured it out, within two edits. ;)

As some sort of punishment, I'm trying to calculate the date that some star material "hits" us. According to Wikipedia it is up to 0.1C.

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Around about the 270th millennium. Either Space is too big, or light is too slow.
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Post by johnhpus »

Darn NASA... I feel for their hype again. Oh well, better luck next time.
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