What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 3: The Photon Traffic Jam

June 17, 2026 Universe Today

What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 3: The Photon Traffic Jam
By Paul Sutter (https://ift.tt/w1DevRU)

Granulation on the Sun's surface, the tops of convective cells that ferry energy upward after its long crawl through the solar interior. Credit: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

A photon born in the Sun's core takes around 100,000 years to fight its way to the surface, bouncing through a random walk so inefficient that the light on your face is older than human civilization. Why the Sun's surface is a hundred-millennia-delayed broadcast.

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