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 Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: What would you see if.... |
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| IF the sun dissapeared in an instant, how would this appear to an observer from earth, ie what would they see, based on conventional scientific theory.... |
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| Dingus |
| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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For 8 minutes, they'd see the sun.
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| Bettina |
| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Then the Earth will travel in a straight line and although the moon is tied to us I don't believe it will stay very long even though we won't be able to see it anyway. I'm not quite sure what will happen next though..... Surely we will freeze to death.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| Ignore all the other effects, if you were looking at the sun with appropriate safety glasses, what would you see as it dissappeared? |
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| Artemis |
| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: |
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How does it disappear? Does it just completely vanish? in that case you would see the sun, and than see nothing at al, except the stars and the streetlights. Just as if it would be night.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Artemis wrote: |
| How does it disappear? Does it just completely vanish? in that case you would see the sun, and than see nothing at al, except the stars and the streetlights. Just as if it would be night. |
If the sun were to instantaneously dissappear, that is not what you would see! - you would see something else. |
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| Ophiolite |
| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| billco wrote: |
| If the sun were to instantaneously dissappear, that is not what you would see! - you would see something else. |
Do you mean 'what would you see?', or 'what would you perceive?'. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| Ophiolite wrote: |
| billco wrote: |
| If the sun were to instantaneously dissappear, that is not what you would see! - you would see something else. |
Do you mean 'what would you see?', or 'what would you perceive?'. |
For you Ophie, both will do. |
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| Bettina |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: |
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This is bugging me...  I can't find an answer..
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| Guest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| Bettina wrote: |
This is bugging me... I can't find an answer..
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THink about the speed of light, how big the sun is and it's composition. |
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| DrNeedles |
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| hmmm...lets imagine we wouldnt freeze to death, i dont think we would be in total darkness since we would get light from other stars, it would be very little, but none the less, still light. what we would observe would be an imploding star would we not? and if it happened in an instantaneous moment, then surely there would be a LOT of hydrogen floating around, and who knows what changes that would make! but that does not really answer what we would physically see....we cannot see balck holes right? we just know they there and i think see evidence of rdiation....or maybe as the star implodes, the gamma rays no longer travel at the speed of light, so it is no longer light so we see evidence of light like if u had to wave a luminous stick in the dark u would see a trail of light...i would take time for the light to fade so even though the sun disappeared instantaneously we would obsemrve the light disappearing until all that we see is the radiation from the black hole....i dont know... |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| No it is not imploding, imagine it can dissappear in zero time. every atom cease to exist instantaneously. |
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| DrNeedles |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
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well then the solar system would have i think 98.2% less mass and wow, imagine the changes! dont know what we would see though. possibilities of what would happen are endless but what we would momentarily see if looking in the direction of the sun is black...the would be SLIGHT lumination from other stars but then blackness! just space would fill the gap..there would just be darker sky maybe even blue sky, just without the sun so it appears darker. wow! what would all the planets orbit
?? if we think of the solar system as being in equilibrium, when the sun disappears all other matter would have to shift to maintain equilibrium but then there is nothing fo the planets to orbit which still does not answer your question and it is probably going to drive me insane for the next few weeks...what do u think we would see? |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| I'll let a few more people see this one then print my version as I believe it would happen. |
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| Zelos |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:53 am Post subject: |
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if the sun all of a sudden disaphered for no reason into nothingness we would see the sun, then all of a sudden nothing. its like shutting of a light bulp. there is the light, now its gone. logical
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