Gork@lemm.ee to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agoThat's a big burgerfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarejsomae@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoactually the part that i am scratching my head at is the sevenfold brighter bit.
minus-squareMadLegoChemist@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI was curious about this too. From random web searching (Syfy.com), the sun is 200,000 times brighter than the moon in the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
minus-squarejsomae@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI know human perception is logarithmic. I’m interested why it was thought it was 7x brighter. “Sevenfold as the seven days in one” it seems?
minus-squarevala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI think sevenfold means n^7 not n*7.
actually the part that i am scratching my head at is the sevenfold brighter bit.
I was curious about this too. From random web searching (Syfy.com), the sun is 200,000 times brighter than the moon in the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
I know human perception is logarithmic. I’m interested why it was thought it was 7x brighter. “Sevenfold as the seven days in one” it seems?
I think sevenfold means
n^7notn*7.