Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
Photons released in the Sun's core, moving randomly, take over 170,000 years to get to the radiative zone of the Sun.
Really?...According to Ian, photons cease to exist when they contact matter and impart their energy to it...how might a photon move around in the interior of the sun for 170,000 years and not contact any matter
Just as photons emitted by the Earth's surface, that would take a tiny fraction of a second to reach space, absent a greenhouse gas to absorb and re-emit them, take much longer to finally leave the atmosphere.
They take just a tiny fraction of a second with an atmosphere as well...the atmosphere does not slow the theoretical particles to a speed less than the speed of light.
According to Ian, photons cease to exist when they contact matter and impart their energy to it
Sounds good to me. Do you disagree?