Science Mysterious object just 4,000 light years away from Earth releases a giant burst of energy

Hey you guys, next time don't piss me off.

 

Ask Einstein, he's the smart ass in here.

 

How can the planets be light hours away when the sun is only 8 light minutes away Granted Neptune is 4 light hours away but that's Neptune for crying out loud and what maniac wants to vacation there?

 

The planet with the closest average distance to Jupiter is Mercury.

Mercury is also the planet with the closest average distance to every other planet in our solar system.

 

You've spent too many light years on this analysis.

 

Since an object with mass can't travel at light speed you would experience time. Just a lot less at near light speed. Walking on near light speed train would not be more than light speed. Light does not "experience" time. It is counter intuitive.

 

Time to give it the Pluto treatment in the name of social distancing.

 

Time slowing down the closer you get to the speed of light explains why you can't exceed the speed of light.

 

Uranua and Neptune are only 1/4 of the solar system's planets and Saturn is not two or more light years away. Pluto is not really a planet.

 

Light has an effective mass but not a static mass.
One of the guys that I graduated with while we both worked at Tektronix was on a team that measured the effective mass of a photon (the name I gave to my old '69 Volvo four banger). The effective mass of a photon was measured to be ~1/3 of what they previously thought it was.
By the way, the tilde (~) in science and engineering means 'approximately'. I'm certainly not saying this for a highly scientific crandc but rather for the general reader.

 

And mass increases to infinity so it takes more energy to accelerate the velocity of an object with resting mass.