From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 20:12:18 MST
--- "Dickey, Michael F" <michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amara Graps [mailto:amara@amara.com]
>
> "Here's why...At the speed of light, it would take 2.3 seconds for a
> photon from the center of the Sun to reach the surface."
This is in a vacuum. Now, I can't see the stars on the opposite side of
the sun from here, so it's rather obvious that the sun isn't a vacuum.
Furthermore, being more or less solid/liquid/plasma matter, it is
unlikely that a photon created in the core would ever survive to the
surface. It's energy would be absorbed and reemitted by many billion
billions of atoms between the core and the surface.
>
> --------------
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't we know if the nuclear fusion
> process in
> the sun stopped in about 2.3 seconds plus ~8 minutes (to earth) when
> see a
> sudden drop in nuetrinos? Whoa, wait a minute, isnt the 'solar
> nutrino
> problem' some big mystery in physics today, maybe it has already shut
> off
> (or is in the process of shutting down)...
The solar neutrino counting problem has been recently resolved, with
the deficit discovered to be a type of neutrino difficult to detect.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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