chippie
Well-Known Member
I thought a light year was a measure of distance expressed in time.
That is, the distance travelled by light in one year . Being a distance it could be expressed in metric or imperial terms but the practicalities of writing such large figures have led to looking at it another way.
I was going to write the figure but then I realised just how big it is.
From memory: 186 000 miles a second multiplied by the number of seconds in a year.
Enough , my mind is starting to boggle.
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That is, the distance travelled by light in one year . Being a distance it could be expressed in metric or imperial terms but the practicalities of writing such large figures have led to looking at it another way.
I was going to write the figure but then I realised just how big it is.
From memory: 186 000 miles a second multiplied by the number of seconds in a year.
Enough , my mind is starting to boggle.
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