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times cruel joke (quokk.au)
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[–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Whoever made this needs to learn how to form coherent statements.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Indeed. I'm pretty sure whatever is being communicated is probably interesting, but I can barely grasp it.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I think (and IANA astrophysicist) that they are saying because of the density of the sun, the forces of gravity are so strong at the core, that time dilation occurs, making time at the core pass more slowly than time at the surface. Over billions of years of existence, that adds up.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah I was trying to figure out this as well. It's about gravitational time dilation. The increased gravity at the center of the sun means that about 25,000 fewer years have passed there than at the surface, since the birth of the sun.

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    • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    What about convection? There's been at least some mixing, right? So I'd guess the average age of a nucleus from the core (ignoring fusion) would indeed be less than from the surface, but I would think it's less difference (on average) than the raw math. If there's enough mixing it could be very little difference at all.

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    [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    ...it got better?

    (This is a famous quote from Monty Python:

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    [–] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    older. The core is older. It was there first.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They both formed at the same time, none came first.

    Due to general relativity and the immense gravity inside the core of the sun it is in fact 39,000 years younger compared to the outside where time flows faster.

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