Geometrized luminosity 2026-10-06
A geometrized luminosity is dimensionless because in geometrized units an energy and a time have the same dimension. Starting from SI luminosity, multiply by . The corresponding SI power unit is . Radiating a fraction of a mass at constant SI luminosity takes , or in seconds.
Power is energy per time. In geometrized units, energy has the dimension of length and time is converted to length using , so the dimensionless geometrized luminosity is
Equivalently, is the corresponding SI power unit. The lifetime for emitting the entire rest energy at the given constant luminosity is
The same result follows from . The stipulated full-mass radiation time is of order years; this is the constant-luminosity energy budget asked for, not a stellar-evolution calculation.