If it were proven our sun was older than current years, would it go supernova & destroy ALL life?

Question

Would we face heat so intense it would melt concrete, burn sand, eat up the earth's atmosphere to where the sky would be on fire? Would God and Mother Nature step in to save earth that we as humans could not do?

There will be plenty of warnings before the earth would vaporize. Fire balls falling from our sky to the earth, burning everything it reaches upon explosion. Satellites would burn up, communications disrupted, oceans would vaporize, etc., etc.

ALSO, our entire galaxy will be destroyed. Many of you don't realize how powerful a supernova can be!

Answer 1

Hmm, this one is interesting. I mean you could have left this one off with the science, but you added the philosophical point. But thats ok because it makes it so much more subjective. But, let's start with what science can prove, and move on from there. This should be interesting. Ok. Would the sun go supernova? No, because our nice little star is not massive enough, it needs A LOT more mass to go super nova. But what it will do is many years from now (hopefully) it will enter the Red Giant phase, where the Sun will expand outwards to about where Mars is. As it is doing that, yes it will burn concrete, it will flashboil the oceans, and turn our lush eden into a barren world shortly before being consumed by the sun. After that it will explode to create a planetary nebula and the suns inner core will remain and cool to a white dwarf. Now, the philosophical question. Mother nature would probably not step in because this is just another cycle, this happens to many other stars/ suns in our night sky. But, God probably would. In fact, he could come before our little star goes boom. Because remember that when he spoke to Noah, he said that he would destroy the world again, only with fire this time. So the sun destroying itself could have some part to play. But, he may not come till after it destroys itself. Now, that is if you believe the Bible. Im not sure what the Kuran or any other religious works have to say about their god or gods. Because remember, it took him from the big bang to about 35 A.D. to return, about 20 billion years. So, he may not come for another 20 billion years! Remember, his timescale is not like ours is. And thats the beauty of all this! He gave us a universe to explore, and a holy work commanding us to go forth unto the world and multiply! What better excuse to use for space exploration! I mean we have so much time that its almost insane. I feel that we have barely scratched the surface on our understanding of the universe, and that we should take steps to understand it.

(Please note: Though I am a Christian, I respect other religions because last I looked, we lived in a country that allows freedom of religion, and actually, I would love to see some one from another religion answer this to see what they have to say about this)

Answer 2

The sun is much to small to produce a supernova. It would instead turn to a white dwarf. But before becoming a white dwarf it would become a red giant. This phase in the sun's life will possibly engulf the orbit of the Earth and therefore the Earth itself. Even if it didn't engulf the Earth's orbit, the intense heat would boil most of the water and the atmosphere away. So there would be no life left.

Answer 3

The Sun isn't big enough of a star to explode into a supernova when it finally burns out in about 5 billion years. (It's about halfway through its lifespan right now.) The sun will instead explode into what we call a Red Giant, which will still be big enough to vaporize all the planets and their moons out to Mars.
The heat will be so quick and intense humans on earth wouldn't feel a thing, maybe just see a flash, like God taking a photograph! As far as divine intervention saving us, I wouldn't count on it. God so far has let the universe follow its natural laws, and stars explode all the time.

Answer 4

Our sun is not going supernova. It is going to become a red giant, but may or may NOT consume the Earth. In the process of the sun going red giant it will expel a LOT of mass, which means the Earth's orbit may extend out further, perhaps just enough to avoid annihilation, but the sun will definitely bake off our atmosphere and the Earth will become like Mercury.

Answer 5

The sun is a main-sequence star. It's middle-aged, about 5 billion years old. Don't worry, it has about another 5 billion years to go before it dies. And when it dies, it will swell up so large that it will consume all matter in a radius of about one billion miles. That means the Earth and everything on it will be toast. After the sun goes supernova, it would take a trillion years to cool off.

Answer 6

The sun will never go supernova, it is not big enough. It cannot and will not go supernova. If the sun did go supernova however, then yes, all life on Earth would be quickly vaporized. As for your last question, that is metaphysics.

Answer 7

the sun would never turn into a supernova and as a result a black hole however it may turn into a nova then a red giant and then a white dwarf.
And the end of time is the end of time, i dont think God or Mother Nature would step in in that case

Answer 8

it really is my suggestion: scenario one: You sit down at the same time with his father and mom and say that you have an interest in a relationship with their son yet understand what a 19 year old and a 16 year sounds like. assure them the relationship isn't sexual and that you spot your self interested in him even as he will change into an human being. scenario 2: enable the boy down genuinely. His emotions are actual for you. he's amazingly fascinated in you. 16 year old boys are very eco-friendly with concerns of love so he hasn't idea by the dynamics of a 19 and 16 year old being at the same time (human being and baby) and how gentle society is to that type of component. it is also very puzzling through the indisputable fact that 3 year distinction in human beings you a lengthy time period is wide. A 19 year old's in basic terms starting up to fly into existence and opportunities even as the 16 year old remains in college progression that chance. a 19 year woman's adulthood aspect is way way larger than a 16 year old boy. usually a three year differnece isn't any huge deal yet on the certain a lengthy time period you're, those 3 years create a distinction.

Answer 9

Well, if it were shown that the Sun was significantly older than we thought it is right now, that would seem to imply that the nuclear reactions in the Sun's core are occuring at a slower pace than we believed (and yet still producing the same amount of energy). This would cause particle physicists some severe problems, and could change the mass scales that we believe characterize stellar evolution (e.g. stars end up as white dwarfs if they have end masses less than about 1.4 solar masses, and above that become neutron stars until they pass some threshold [I don't exactly know what it is, and I believe that it's not a well known number generally because we don't understand the "equation of state" of neutron matter that well, if I recall, but the best info we have would put that threshold in the 3-8 solar mass range I believe]). These end states depend upon both the mass and the equation of state that characterizes the end state, and if the Sun was going through fuel at a slower pace than we though, the implications for particle physics could mean we are off on what we think the equation of state is for the various forms of stellar matter.

Odds are that if the Sun were older than we thought, it would have an even lesser chance of any kind of explosive outburst. Supernovae are believed to be the result of either a white dwarf passing the Chandresekar mass limit or due to massive stars building up cores of un-fusible iron which, when the core passes the Chandreasekar mass limit, collapses and causes the whole star to go boom, to put it lightly. As I alluded to above, the age of the Sun does not enter into computations of the Chandrasekar limit, so it would not affect how the Sun's life ended directly. Though, again as I alluded to above, a slower nuclear process in the Sun could suggest our particle physics is wrong, which *could* change the Chandrasekar limit, though how exactly is hard to tell.

So, odds are that the Sun won't go supernova (though it is likely that it'll do some other weird and spectacular things all its own as it nears the end). Of course, the Sun is getting brigher (over time-scales of millions and billions of years - it doesn't have anything to do [that we know of] with the current global warming), so the Earth will eventually find itself in a rather, er, hot spot (sorry for the pun).

Of course, a more interesting (and dangerous) situation would ensue if a star pretty close to the Sun (within, say 100 light years or so...) went supernova. This could cause us serious problems, particularly, if I recall, in terms of the ozone layer and general radiation reaching the Earth's surface. That could kill a significant portion of the Earth's life, though odds are that it wouldn't kill all life. I want to say I've heard speculation (and as far as I know just speculation) that at least one of the Earth's mass extinctions was caused by a local supernova. As it stands, I don't think we see any stars that are that close which would go supernova in any reasonable amount of time (less than, say, a million years), though we could be in for a super surprise (sorry again for the pun).

As to the role of God or Mother Nature, it depends what you think/believe they are. Personally (e.g. my own opinion which is not necessarily held by anyone else), I've always thought of Mother Nature as simply a personification of the laws of nature/physics. In that sense, I don't believe Mother Nature would be intervening. As to God, God seems to be taking a fairly hands off approach to mankind (assuming God exists). So, on the one hand I could come to the conclusion that God wouldn't intervene to prevent such a natural catastrophe. Of course, it's also possible that we exist in a part of the galaxy/universe which is calm and not subject to such catastrophes because God put us in such a place (this is a statement of a version of what in astronomy is known as the strong antropic principle, taken to something of an extreme; the strong antropic principle, or at least the version that invokes a designer/creator, states that we exist in a universe or part of a universe where the laws of nature/physics are such that human life is possible because it was designed to be amenable to intelligent life such as mankind). Or in other words, God designed our local neighborhood and stellar evolution such that local, dangerous supernovae wouldn't need to be a concern of mankind. That's one religious-themed way of attacking the issue. In the end, however, it's a matter of exactly who/what you believe God is and how you believe God chooses to act. I generally tend to believe God is a pretty hands off or subtle interferer who created a universe that operated in subtle yet beautiful ways which we understand as the laws of physics.

Answer 10

no. longer star life=less mass=no supernova. hence it will go red giant and swallow the earth (unless the earth moves to a farther orbit due to less gravity from the sun. and yes, either way, the earth will be completely barren and unlivable. no atmosphere especially.