10:30 PM on January 31st, 2023 but the Speed of Light is Fast
Light is perceived 8 minutes after it leaves the sun, thus light that reflects off the moon is how old?
Orbits at 384,400 km from what Wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
“299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second”
If speed of Light travels at approximately 300,000 km per second and the distance of the moon is roughly 384,000 km
384/300 = 1.28 seconds from Moon to Earth after that photon spent 8 minutes in space from the sun?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
Sun’s radius is roughly 700,000 km means a photon from the center of sun would take over two seconds before it left the sun (given no internal collisions)? A lot of mass in the sun probably some potential for internal reflectivity.
150 million km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit
150,000,000/300,000 = 150,000/300 = 1500/3 = 500 seconds
500 seconds / 60 seconds per minute = 8.33 minutes
Thus a photon from the sun is 8.33 minutes + 1.28 seconds when reflected from the Moon?
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