Comment on Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us.

radix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even crazier when you consider how long that photon bounced around inside the star before escaping out into space

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  • LostXOR@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technically the photon is being absorbed and re-emitted inside the star, so it's not exactly the same photon.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A “photon” is basically just the universe producing a new field in response to an existing one, repeatedly. So photons travel through space in much the same way: they are absorbed and emitted by successive regions of space, with each region being the photon’s wavelength in size.

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not really the same thing, as well as being afaik straight up wrong

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      • LostXOR@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I'm not smart enough to understand that, but I'll believe you. :D

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Screw photons, neutrinos are where the real numbers start racking up

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• Jilanico@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And from the photon’s perspective, it all happened in an instant 🤯

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