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According to modern science, approximately how old is the Sun?
 
  A) 25 million years B) 10,000 years C) 400 million years D) 4.5 billion years

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Explain why an absorption line spectrum is not filled back in (to make the original continuous spectrum) by the photons that are emitted as the excited electrons decay back down to their original energy levels.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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The photons emitted by the decays are emitted in random directions. Hence only a fraction of them are sent back in their original direction towards us.


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