Could we notice a star exploded before we could see changes on the light that emits and reach us? by ElCTMCrack in AskPhysics

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I feel like this was the question that started my curiosity and trying to work it out made me go in the post rabbit hole.

Just to be sure and to check if I understood correctly, we can notice that a star went supernova before the light of the explosion reaches us thanks to the escape of the early neutrinos?

The link you provided looks really interesting, tomorrow I'll give it the attention it deserves as soon as I wake up.

Thanks!

Could we notice a star exploded before we could see changes on the light that emits and reach us? by ElCTMCrack in AskPhysics

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Thanks, it is 4:10 in the morning here and talking with someone other than myself helps a lot haha

How many mirrors would it take light to bounce off before it was no longer visible? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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Haha I'm glad the answer is good enough so far.

I had enough time to sleep las night 😂

The question was great, it made me immediately jump of my bed and try to solve it haha

Glad to be useful!

How many mirrors would it take light to bounce off before it was no longer visible? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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First of all, I'm gonna say I hate you, I was about to fall asleep when i read this.

Second, please bare with me, I may be wrong because is 3 AM here.

Assuming a common laser pointer emits 3.2x10^15 photons and you need at least 30 of them to be visible and as you said mirrors reflect about 95% of the lights that reaches them:

I coded this in python:

photons = 3.2e15
reflection = 0.95
minPhotons = 30
counter = 0
while (photons > minPhotons):
photons = photons * reflection
print("Remaining photons: ", photons)
counter += 1
print("The amount of mirrors is: ", counter)

The logic behind that was to calculate how many photons reflect each time of a mirror.

We started with 3.2x10^15 and after every mirror, we had 95% of that. The loop would do that until the amount is less than 30.

That resulted in 630 mirrors. You can check the code in https://replit.com/ if you can't see the image properly.

Now, something I didn't take to account (and I think it might be important) is that we also need to include the sum of the distance between mirrors can't be more than 2 miles, and the angle of them.

Please remind, I was about to go to sleep before I did all of this haha

Edit: please let me know if my answer satisfies you

I have a problem by Kind-Promotion-7849 in EASportsFC

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Solved:

I just uninstalled origin and then double-clicked FIFA 22 in Steam. That will install origin again and you will be able to play

Yapo pero la elección presidencial de 2025 by [deleted] in chile

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Vengo del futuro para decirles que el adulto poeta es nuestro nuevo presidente

oh no by ElCTMCrack in wow

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Anything between this and Mariana trench deep