The sun has been shine for billions of years, where all the photons go?

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Tiny fiction is absorbed by our planets, what about the rest light/photon go? Vanished into darkness?

Seems conflict with energy conservation?
 
The vast majority are spread out in the sphere extending billions of light years outward from the Sun. The rest have interacted with the matter spread out in that same sphere and given their energy up to it.
 
Janus58 said:
The vast majority are spread out in the sphere extending billions of light years outward from the Sun. The rest have interacted with the matter spread out in that same sphere and given their energy up to it.
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All the stars around us will give energy to us, the sun gives us energy all the time, how come our temperature is not keep raising?

What about the photons never meet any matter? Just vanished into space? If energy is conserved, should the universe getting hotter by time?
 
jcc said:
Tiny fiction is absorbed by our planets, what about the rest light/photon go? Vanished into darkness?

Seems conflict with energy conservation?
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All that energy might go to expand the universe. ???????
 
jcc said:
All the stars around us will give energy to us, the sun gives us energy all the time, how come our temperature is not keep raising?
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The earth reradiates the radiation from the sun. The other stars are too far away. Think of how cold Pluto is and how relatively close it is to the sun it is.
What about the photons never meet any matter? Just vanished into space?
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They do not vanish they keep moving unless they hit something.
If energy is conserved, should the universe getting hotter by time?
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Good question. Since the beginning of the universe there has been no energy created, and since the universe is expanding that means that the density of energy is decreasing as the universe ages so the universe is getting colder not hotter.
 
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So what is photon made of? A fiction of matter? A tiny bit powder of an electron?
 
jcc said:
So what is photon made of? A fiction of matter? A tiny bit powder of an electron?
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an element of pure energy, nothing more.
travels as a wave; reacts as a particle. simple, correct ?
 
krash661 said:
an element of pure energy, nothing more.
travels as a wave; reacts as a particle. simple, correct ?
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Not simple.

What is energy? How energy has anything to do with photon? Why is photons have different energy/color but all travel at c?

If you use same gun to shoot different mass bullets, they go different speed.
 
jcc said:
Not simple.

What is energy? How energy has anything to do with photon? Why is photons have different energy/color but all travel at c?

If you use same gun to shoot different mass bullets, they go different speed.
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shrugs... instead of replying to show whatever you believe to be consider intelligence, why not just ponder what i stated ?
 
jcc has had this explained many,many,many times. He is either totally unable to learn, perhaps do to being dropped on his head repeatably as an infant or he's a persistent troll.
 
alex, yes yes... i understand. i have read a lot of your post, on many forums. no intensions of my hulk-ness towards you at all.
 
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