What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 3: The Photon Traffic Jam

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A photon born in the Sun's core takes around 100,000 years to fight its way to the surface, bouncing through a random walk so inefficient that the light on your face is older than human civilization. Why the Sun's surface is a hundred-millennia-delayed broadcast.

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What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 3: The Photon Traffic Jam

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