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Measuring Distance is Simple but Hard<br />

If street lights have<br />

the same wattage,<br />

then their relative<br />

brightness is a clue<br />

to their distance:<br />

<strong>The</strong> Inverse-Square<br />

law<br />

A light bulb twice as far as an identical<br />

bulb will appear 4 times fainter

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