QUOTE(Syphon @ Apr 29 2006, 10:55 AM)
What you're describing sound like the atoms are being fissed apart to colide with each other.
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I never said that. Hydrogen is being fused into helium to release energy in the form of photons and neutrinos.
QUOTE(Syphon @ Apr 29 2006, 10:55 AM)
And photons aren't afcted by electrons, seeing as how an electron is 1/2000th the size of a photon. When in reality the Sun is fusing atoms, them being pulled back to the core is the only thing that could hold a photon back, and that would'nt last long. The sun isn't massive enough for it's gravity to affect light.
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The photons aren't being affected by electrons (or gravity), they're being affected by the atoms that contain the electrons.
QUOTE(Syphon @ Apr 29 2006, 10:55 AM)
If it took 50,000,000 years for a photon to leave the sun it would be red, and much darker.
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No, it wouldn't. All that it means is that the photons that we see now are 50 million years old.
QUOTE(Syphon @ Apr 29 2006, 10:55 AM)
A joule isn't that much, write it in say, megatons of force. Doesn't seem as large then.
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Well, according to Wiki, a megaton is 4.184 petajoules (4,184,000,000,000,000 joules), so 18,000,000,000,000,000,000/4,184,000,000,000,000= 4,302.1032504780114722753346080306 megatons.
Ouch again.