I guess we are getting side tracked. My question is why did you say this:Since at no time did i consider the size of the sun. I didn't consider its surface area, or its volume; and I didn't model it as a circle. Where is all this coming from?

you think?

You've got it right, more photons is higher intensity of that wavelength.

πr2 is not r x 2 , its r x r = it's just a common way to write it on a keyboard and is used because πr2 is such an important equation, the 2 is not the big 2, it's the little 2 (u know the squared one) , wtf is pi*r*2, for you to even think of πr2 as pi*r*2 is pretty stupid - it's obviously pi * r * r - it's like not understanding that the phrase "to the power of 2" and "squared" mean the exact same thing



The surface area of a sphere is:
A = 4\pi r^2. The formula that you quote in post #6 and then deny in post #16, probably because you don't even understand it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere



the area of a circle and the surface area of a sphere both use pi*r*r - so huge fail



πr2 is not r x 2 , its r x r = it's just a common way to write it on a keyboard, you're just saying it wrong and blaming me for your mistake.

https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110105132729AAbHdmd



Since you claim to hate libertarians/tea party, thats why you raged when I suggested Trump was essentially a liberterian. He not a true conservative, he's not a democrat, he's not a socialist. Most of his rhetoric is Libertarian based, he's just smart enough to know that Libertarian is a dirty word like socialism and communism and that why he attacked Rand Paul right out of the gate - to make idiots believe he's not Libertarian. The fact you have no memory can probably be interpreted by your selective memory and need to rage whenever you hear information you don't like.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 11 2016 02:09pm

Are you joking with this post? I'm so confused.....

He supports massive tariffs, has the most involved middle eastern military strategy, won't commit on drug legalization, and wants healthcare for all. Outside of border security your label of libertarian seems entirely useless.... But feel free to back that up with specific libertarian platform promises from Trump's campaign if im looking past something.

hate to detract from the interesting (on topic stuff) discussion to say this, but this is not a political thread, nor is it in the political section, in fact its called "questions for the scientifically minded", can we please take the politics to PARD and discuss light? I love reading the discussion you guys are having about the usefulness of shapes to the calculation of lumens, but you're going to get this thread closed with your pointless e-rage. Thanks.

back on topic: What is stopping the odd handful of photons from travelling the distance from a regular star when they happen to not be deflect or absorbed? How does expansion play a role (aside from simply increasing distance). Why isn't "flickering" in and out of visible existence more common in far off stars?

stfu, no one is closing this thread. this subforum gets less traffic than the Alaskan Ice Road in summer.

I posted this thread forever ago, last post 115 days ago, and it just slipped off the front page lol

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=73354389&f=90

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well we're not really talking about Politics - we're talking about the psychological reasoning behind how to influence opinion.

Let's say you're a Libertarian and everyone bashes you for being a libertarian, so you create another User and proceed to bash Libertarians -

Let's say you're a queer and you love giving BJ's, so in order to deflect everyone hating you - you bash fags.

or Let's say you just learn something a few hours ago but don't really understand it , you can go online and call people idiots for not knowing what you only mis learned from a google search.

See how it works? It's Psychology, not politics. You just can't blindly accept every word a person says.

It's like the word conspiracy - it's just a word people use to get you to not believe facts others don't want you to acknowledge. And people are very very gullible to someone else's opinion versus a simple fact. Mostly because people are desperate to belong and are quick to extinguish any thought that might be seen as anti-social.

Don't you agree?

This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 11 2016 03:53pm

Nothing stops them. I guess I don't really understand the question.


Expansion is what makes it where you can continue to see 'old' light that was emitted before an object began to recede faster than the speed of light. Light emitted right before that time is flying towards us at about 300,000,000 m/s but the distance between the light and the earth is growing at almost the same speed so it takes longer and longer for that light to reach us.