Timeline for Superluminous super nova output
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| May 10, 2018 at 19:51 | comment | added | Cody | @JonathanLandrum he did already, indirectly. In #73 he posed the question of what is brighter in terms of delivering energy to your retina: a supernova viewed from 1AU, or an H-Bomb pressed against your eye. Spoiler, its the supernova by a factor of about one billion. The only materials strong enough to survive that much energy are ones that are far enough to be unaffected by it. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 15:03 | comment | added | Jonathan E. Landrum | +1 for "silly numbers". Next question is find a substance that can withstand that kind of energy input. Sounds like a job for xkcd what-if. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 11:45 | comment | added | Steve Linton | If we use a more massive spacecraft, such as the entire planet Earth, we get get gamma approximately 20000, so velocity is only 99.995% of c. If we take the entire solar system so as to be sure of all our familiar home comforts, it's something like 30% of lightspeed. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 5:21 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |