2016-03-232016-03-232016-03-182016-03-18Special Matrices, vol.4(1), pp.176 - 180 (5)2300-7451https://hdl.handle.net/10292/9643We present a new fundamental intuition for why the Kemeny feature of a Markov chain is a constant. This new perspective has interesting further implications.© 2016 Karl Gustafson and Je rey J. Hunter, published by De Gruyter Open. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.Markov chains; Mixing; Kemeny constantJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1515/spma-2016-0016