2007-01-17 10:28:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
8.31 minutes, which is how long it would take the flash from the implosion to get here.
PS: Nice to see poster 1 can't spell genius, yet tries to use it in an insult to the asker.
2007-01-17 10:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it implodes or explodes instantly, about eight minutes (the time the light takes to go from Sun to Earth). But if it were the consequence of a process, we could notice it long time before.
Sun is not a start to implode or explode. I will take thousand of millions of years before being a dying star.
2007-01-17 11:19:37 · answer #2 · answered by Jano 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aren't we about 8 light minutes away from the sun? Therefore, we'd notice in about 8 minutes?
* The Earth is actually 147,104,753 km away from the Sun on 29 December and 152,091,803 km away from the Sun on 30 June.
Some conversion factors:
* 1 AU = 149 597 870.691 ± 0.030 km ≈ 92 955 807 miles ≈ 8.317 light minutes ≈ 499 light-seconds
2007-01-17 10:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would it really matter?
It takes 8 mins (approx) for the light from the sun to reach the earth, so by the time we noticed ("Well look at that, the darn sun went and blew itself up") the energy released from the sun would vaporise all the closest planets, then would destroy earth.
N.B. Plus not to mention if you were looking at the sky when it happened, you would be blinded (to add insult to injury).
2007-01-17 10:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
7-9 minutes. That's how long it takes the sun's light to travel to Earth.
2007-01-17 10:33:07 · answer #5 · answered by chpsalumni 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it takes light 8min. to get to Earth. So everything we see of the sun is 8 minutes old. Anything happening to the sun we find out 8 minutes latter.
2007-01-17 10:33:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
8 Minutes!
2007-01-17 10:31:39 · answer #7 · answered by Chris K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it would take a long time for the light to not reach us any more but what people dont tell you.....are you ready for this......the suns gravity holds us in orbit and without that force we would fly out of our orbit and crash into other planets but firstly the moon would probly crash into us popping the earth and a thousand mile high tidal wave of moltan lava would melt us all then it would go very dark ... if the sun has imploded then at any moment you could suddenly start feeling unbalanced and a tidal wave,,, and so on..but if i was you i wouldnt think about it.. at all.
2007-01-17 10:35:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We would actually die before it happened. When our sun dies (in like 14 billion years so don't worry too much about it) it will expand to a size greater than our orbit of the sun, and then it will just shrink because it will no longer be able to produce enough energy to maintian its size. no, it won't supernova so it'll just sort of get really big, and then die and there will be tons of cold. and Mercury, Venus, Earth, and possibly mars will be no longer.
2007-01-17 10:33:31 · answer #9 · answered by Tachus Ischus 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
8 minutes, that's how long it would take for the light and gravity to stop reaching us.
2007-01-17 11:37:52 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.President 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋