scott wrote:
>> That would be a lower bound on the non-virtual photons, yes.  Of 
>> course, there are heptazeptazillions of photons deep inside each star 
>> being created and destroyed. It takes about a million years for a 
>> photon created in the sun to actually get to the surface. Count those?
> 
> Well if we know the rate of photons coming off the star, and each one 
> has lived for a million years previously, then you could make some 
> estimate.

Only if you knew how much light was going to be coming out in a million 
years, and only if you knew the ratio of photons generated to photons 
escaping. :-)

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