• Question: how many nano seconds are in 500 light years

    Asked by anon-247479 to Martha, Jennifer, Dan, Ben, Baptiste on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Baptiste Ravina

      Baptiste Ravina answered on 9 Mar 2020:


      Well, let me do a quick computation: one nanosecond is 10^-9 seconds, 500 divided by… waaaait a minute… Light years are a unit of distance (how far light travels in a year), nanoseconds a unit of time.

      +10 points for trying to trick me, -5 for not succeeding.

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