What would happen if the sun suddenly disappeared?

Question

Aside from the fact that we would freeze to death, since there wouldn't be any gravity from the sun to keep us in orbit, would we just go flying off into space???

Answer 1

We are already flying into space. The sun is moving around in the galaxy, the galaxy is moving around in its galactic clusted, the galactic clusted is moving towards the grat attractor, the great attractor is moving around in the observable universe.

If you made the sun go away, then the earth will keep moving in the direction it had at the moment the sun was observed to disappear, and will keep moving in that direction relative to the position the sun occupied, just like a slingshot.

Since the sun speed relative to the galaxy is greater than the speed of earth relative to the sun, we' d probebly end up going in essentially the same direction. But as you pointed out, as a bunch of frozen corpses.

Answer 2

First, we would feel nothing for about 8 minutes. Then, after a few weeks, the Earth would freeze and mabye get sucked into another solar system. Every living thing on Earth would die and freeze. All the planets might even go in orbit around Jupiter. Anything could happen.

Answer 3

Yes. We would all freeze, die out and get flung far away if you meant the sun was no more, and if nothing was in place. We also would probibly collide with other planets, and eventually form a larger planet and get caught in another stars orbit.

However, if you mean something...like...a black hole! Well, the only problem would be the lack of heat! Otherwise, we would still be in the same orbit, as long as nothing bad happened.

Answer 4

Yes, actually as Vincent G said the earth will continue to fly in straight line, but not all the life on the planet will die. 'Cos as we now there is another heater on the planet the planet core - creating geysers and hot springs. Maybe the magnetism of the core will be affected in some way and it will change its speed of spinning and then its amount of released heat, but there is a small chance that some micro-organisms will sirvive into the hot waters.

Answer 5

well this is an imaginary question with no relation to physics whatsoever

but thinking of it , the earth contains life only because of a special star known to us as the sun
the appropriate distance of the earth from the su makes the climate on earth suitable for evolution and various other life processes

if the earth was just 1 km away or near the sun things would have changed dramatically
there would not have been life on earth

so if the sun went out .... earth wouldnt even exist

Answer 6

What Would Happen If The Sun Went Out

Answer 7

the sun has an affect in the fabric of space time like the picture bellow,..... the hole will suddenly drop causing a wave stated in Einstein's general relativity law but we will lose light
first cause light travels faster than anything EVEN GRAVITY than we will travel out of orbit maybe crash into a planet and etc I'M 11 AND I KNOW THIS

Answer 8

Guys you are all assuming that the loss of gravity is instananeous.
Hate to do it to you, but nobody knows whether it is or not.
Gravity may only move as fast as the speed of light, in which case we will still be moving around the "sun" for a further 8 minutes.

Answer 9

We wouldnt know it for 7 or 8 minutes, then it would get dark, then it would get chilly for a while continuosly getting colder. Then we would all run in the freezing streets naked waiting to meet the maker.

Answer 10

yes,basically.
not just eath but all the other planets as well as the stars and the sattelites....so ity will be some sort of the War of The Worlds.