That Photon Hitting Your Camera Sensor Took Thousands of Years to Arrive

Categories: Educational Tags: astronomyinterestingphotonsciencesensorsunlighttrivia How long does it take for a photon from the Sun to reach your camera sensor (or film) and help form a photograph? If you answered "8 minutes," you'd be kind of right, and but also kind of wrong. An answer that's more correct is "at least tens of thousands of years." 8 minutes and