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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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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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