• CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 months ago

    I assume that this thought experiment posits a space filled with the same average density of particles found at ground level on Earth. Obviously such a thing is nonsensical, but it serves to illuminate one aspect of the raw power of the Sun that we ignore, because we’re insulated from it by 93 million miles of vacuum.