Timeline for Where does a photon('s energy) originating from the sun's core spend most of its time?
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| Nov 21, 2020 at 17:21 | comment | added | boyfarrell | What’s the main mechanism is energy transport in the plasma to the further out layers in the star? I guess what you are staying is that the mean free path of photons in the plasma is much much smaller than the mean free path of the mechanism by which energy is transport beyond the plasma layer? Such that photons are not important to consider in these regions. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 14:53 | comment | added | my2cts | @kurschkem Indeed, there are no photons until you reach the photosphere, except for the very short lived ones from fusion. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 14:39 | comment | added | kutschkem | Ok, there are two gradients that I mentioned that influence this diffusion (the diffusion being exactly the process I asked about, I guess?), and the influence of which I am interested in. Or are you saying it makes no sense to talk about the random walk of a photon because the diffusion process doesn't mainly work through radiation? | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 14:29 | history | answered | my2cts | CC BY-SA 4.0 |