Personal Light Cone
Friday, 5 March 2010 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daOK, this is seriously geeky, but I love it:
Exhibit A: Distance of stars from us, in light-years, and other information.
Exhibit B: definition of Light Cone.
Exhibit C:Your Personal Light Cone RSS feed.
"From the moment of my birth, light (that I could have influenced) has been expanding around the Earth and light (which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin) reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone." My light cone has 61 stars in it. The next star to be reached is Beta Leonis, 4 months from now.
Hat-tip to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
james_nicoll.
Exhibit A: Distance of stars from us, in light-years, and other information.
Exhibit B: definition of Light Cone.
Exhibit C:Your Personal Light Cone RSS feed.
"From the moment of my birth, light (that I could have influenced) has been expanding around the Earth and light (which could influence me, from an increasing distance of origin) reaching it -- this ever-growing sphere of potential causality is my light cone." My light cone has 61 stars in it. The next star to be reached is Beta Leonis, 4 months from now.
Hat-tip to
james_nicoll.
