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Do photons slow down this much in the Sun's gravitational field?
I just heard someone mention that photons take 40 thousand years to travel from the centre of the Sun to its
surface which is roughly 700,000 kilometres. How is that possible if the speed of light/...
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Do particles in the solar core travel at the same speed as they would in vacuum?
I just read the Wikipedia article on the Sun. The section on Solar Core states
It has a density of up to 150 g/cm3[47][48] (about 150 times the density of water)
Do the particles (atomic, and sub-...