From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 03:22:08 MST
On 2003.01.21, Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Excellent point. In fact, I recall that the mean time to the surface for a
> photon from the core is not just thousands of years, but a *million* years.
> [!!]
That's a comforting thought. The Sun could have blinked out hundreds of
thousands of years ago, and we have absolutely no idea? :-)
-- Dossy
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