What red flag could be a green flag in the right context?
What red flag could be a green flag in the right context?
What red flag could be a green flag in the right context?
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A literal flag colored red, if you or the flag is moving towards the other so fast as to blueshift it to green.
Sooooo, wavelengths (λ) become longer when something moves away (redshift) and become shorter when something moves towards you (blueshift).
For a red flag (λ0=610nm) to become a green flag (λ1=549nm), it has to move towards you quite fast. But how fast is 'quite fast'?
Using the formula
flag_velocity / speed of light (c) = difference in wavelengths / starting wavelength
we get
flag_velocity = (610-549) / 610 * c = 61 / 610 * c = 1/10 * c
This means: the flag has to move with about c/10 = 30 000 000 m/s = 108 000 000 km/h = 67 108 100 mph. Yeah, that's quite fast.
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So you're saying I should date her right?
uhhh maybe, idk
Well, they certainly did the math