Science NS'ers

Yeah speed of light. Wouldn't make a difference except over huge distances.

you think too much

I read this one thing that if a mirror was really really really far away like light years and you looked to it with a telescope you could see dinosaurs on our planet, I think I sharted when I read that but I dont know

Yeah you're looking at your past self in the mirror. Light is just hell fast.

We're time travelers!

Yes, but no at the same time. If you are 5 meters (Little over 5 yards) away from a mirror then the image of you would take 10 meters to get to your eye. Light moves at 800,000,000 meters per second. So 5/300,000,000 is about 0.000000017 seconds. Which is basically zero.

Yes, we could theoretically see dinosaurs in a mirror, but only if it was how ever many years ago dinosaurs existed light years-away. For example, if dinosaurs existed 1 billion (1,000,000,000) years ago then we would need a mirror 500,000,000 light-years away to see them. 500 million years out and 500 million back (assuming we can see this mirror). A light-year is a unit of distance, it is the distance light travels in a year. So one light year would be (365 days)*(24 hours/day)*(60 hours/day)*(60 seconds/hour)*(300,000,000 meters/second) which is about 25,000,000,000,000,000 meters/light-year*500,000,000 light-years comes out to be 12,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters or 7,770,000,000,000,000,000,000 Miles away.

The more you know!

Also, how crazy small are we thinking about that kind of stuff.

Scientifically speaking, if you French fry when you're supposed to pizza you're gonna have a bad time.

Left_BrothersAlso, how crazy small are we thinking about that kind of stuff.

Yeah its bizarre to think about. Andromeda, the nearest major galaxy, is some 2.5 million light years away. If some alien looked at us through a telescope from over there, they would just see the earliest cavemen.

Wanna get real science and nerdy and ensure that your mind will be blown?

The Flash, who is a Superhero known for his speed is an absurd amount of speed in one person. He has a direct connection to the Speed Force, which basically allows him to move as fast as he needs to. He once moved every single citizen of an entire city 50 miles away from the epicenter of a nuke in 10 picoseconds.

What is a picosecond you ask?
1 picosecond = 1.0 × 10-12 second

That means 1 picosecond is .0000000000001 of a second (I may have missed a zero or added one, I'm tired).

So in closing, the Flash could beat his own reflection.

Left_BrothersLight moves at 800,000,000 meters per second.

ahem

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whoops, typo, but I used the right value later on. When I was typing I was thinking 3*10^8 and accedently wrote 8*10^8, silly me.

when you are looking down at your hand, you are seeing your past self. You can't actually see anything the moment it happens, due to the nature of everything stated (much more scientifically) above.

GregFlikWanna get real science and nerdy and ensure that your mind will be blown?

The Flash, who is a Superhero known for his speed is an absurd amount of speed in one person. He has a direct connection to the Speed Force, which basically allows him to move as fast as he needs to. He once moved every single citizen of an entire city 50 miles away from the epicenter of a nuke in 10 picoseconds.

What is a picosecond you ask?
1 picosecond = 1.0 × 10-12 second

That means 1 picosecond is .0000000000001 of a second (I may have missed a zero or added one, I'm tired).

So in closing, the Flash could beat his own reflection.

Wanna know what's quicker than the flash? A virgin's first time