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Science is cool - Astronomers release the largest color image of the sky ever made
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Originally posted by poopnut2 View PostRomer came up with a formula that HELPED other astromers determine the speed of light. If I remember right Romer thought it to be around 10x the speed of sound.
Either way, he's still talked about 300+ years later. That's more than anyone will be able to say about us
That interpretation makes it possible to calculate the strict result of Rømer's observations: The ratio of the speed of light to the speed with which Earth orbits the sun, which is the ratio of the duration of a year devided by pi as compared to the 22 minutes
365·24·60⁄pi·22 ≈ 7,600.
In comparison the modern value is circa 299,792 km s-1⁄29.8 km s-1 ≈ 10,100.[7]
Rømer neither calculated this ratio, nor did he give a value for the speed of light. However, many others calculated a speed from his data
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Originally posted by 32vfromhell View Postoh i dont know, i think practical things like surviving plague and working on the four-field crop system were a little bit more important to medieval science than looking up at stars."Any dog under 50lbs is a cat and cats are pointless." - Ron Swanson
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