why does the heat from the core of the sun takes more than a 1000 years to reach its surface but the heat from the sun to our planet only takes about 8 minutes.

Question

I’m unsure if the 1000 years time is true or not, I just saw a poster of it at an elementary school.

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Answer 1

There’s a complete traffic jam of high energy (read: fast) particles inside the Sun, so it’s really luck of the draw when comes to a) how long it takes to push through and b) which direction you’ll come out in.

It’s about 500,000 years assuming each crash is 0.1mm apart.