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[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Wouldn't brightness be proportional to the square root of the amount of light released? Also they didn't mention the mass of the wax in the two candles.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

That's right, light goes out in all directions, not all focused towards your eye. So the 4x as bright candle burns 16x as fast?

I assumed mass is kept constant. Or it would be, "the candle that burns four times as bright is really heavy."

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