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| Jan 8, 2020 at 18:44 | comment | added | TimWescott | @Alchimista that's a good question! The 10m figure was just floating around in my head, so I could be wrong. What's a few zeros, anyway? They mean nothing! | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 9:13 | comment | added | Alchimista | Once I read that the average time for a x-ray photon to leave the sun at lower frequency is about 10k years. Just for curiosity. 10k or 10m years? | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 23:18 | history | edited | TimWescott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2020 at 21:55 | comment | added | probably_someone | I think using the word "continuous" here might be misleading - the absorption "lines" have a finite width due to, among other things, Doppler broadening, pressure broadening, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and so they don't represent discontinuous jumps in the spectrum, but rather more gentle dips. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 21:52 | history | answered | TimWescott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |