NoNukes writes:
However, the sun's energy is generated exclusively in the core of the sun, and it does indeed take thousands of years for that energy to travel from the core to reach the surface of the sun.
Interesting. Thanks for the information.
And, as I slap my forehead, I see that shalamabobbi already even stated this in his original message. Which, at the time of my last post, I just didn't connect the dots:
shalamabobbi in Message 1 writes:
For our sun those many years are between 10,000 and 170,000 years as the photons generated in the core make a "random walk" to the surface.
Oops.