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Nice article, although I think this must be a typo: "Despite the fact that a supernova has 1045 times as much energy as our tin blasts, the same math describes
by 00N8 2y ago
Nice article, although I think this must be a typo: "Despite the fact that a supernova has 1045 times as much energy as our tin blasts, the same math describes the evolution of both types of explosions."
Maybe they meant 10^45 times as much energy?
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- hnuser123456 2y agoWas probably written in one system, formatted with the 45 as superscript, then copied into a CMS that converted the superscript back to regular script. Lots of popsci type publications end up having this happen.
- skmoore 2y agoYeah. It's fixed now.
- hnuser123456 2y agoThank you! It was an excellent read. Had me from start to end.
- saulpw 2y agoThis is yet another reason I'm promoting the ^45 "magnitude notation"[0]. https://saul.pw/mag https://saul.pw/mag
- hinkley 2y ago1045 is a pretty weird multiple. And probably moves us up quite a ways on the Kardashev Scale.
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