What would happen if the Sun never set?

Question

Or there are no night time?

Let's say only in my location.

Answer 1

There is a perennial sunlight and of course, it will be difficult to tell time. It will be a great day of rejoicing for the workaholics. Imagine, there will be no nighttime to drag them from their work?! And then, there will be a profusion of plants and trees, a veritable garden for all. But can you imagine living day in and day out without respite from the sun? What if the sun is scorchingly hot, it burns? What about the people who lives at nighttime only, who thrives for the sun to set? For the lovers who yen for a romantic moon and stars? Tsk!Tsk!Tsk!

Answer 2

There's three things that happened then:

Either the sun went out (explains second question), but before which, our planet would've been destroyed, since to reach this phase of a star's life, it would have to go through the Red Giant phase, which (in theory) would've engulfed our planet,
-OR-
The Earth's rotation and it's revolution were "locked" (our planet's rotation would move at the same speed as our revolution) in a way that one side of the planet always faces the sun, while the other faces towards deep space (like our moon). This is the most likely of the three, as it would still allow "normal" activities to continue on, minus the whole half the planet encased in eternal night while the other is scorched in permanent day, thus half the planet would be lush in vegetation while the other is cursed with none,
-OR-
Earth's rotation completely stopped. This would cause the Earth to lose gravity eventually and we would be flung into space. And, actually, Earth would still make revolutions around the Sun, so the whole Earth would have light and dark equally, but one day would take a whole year.


In addition to your new details, "In my area?", how about a permanent solar eclipse? The moon has a revolution at the same rotation speed of the Earth, at the same exact time when it was solar eclipsing your town. This would cause a complete disruption in the moon's phases, light in the night sky, tides, and a lot more.

Answer 3

We say that the Sun rises and sets, but actually it doesn't. It stays in one place. The rotation of Earth makes it look like the sun is rising and setting. If there was no setting of sun, that would mean the Earth is not rotating. It will cause the other side of the Earth [side not facing the sun] will freeze. If the Earth stops rotating, the gravitational pull of the Earth will weaken and eventually the Earth will reach a "zero gravity."

Before the Earth reaches "zero gravity" every organism will die...So I promise you will never have to see that day. We all will be long gone by then...

Answer 4

The sun doesn't actually set. The earth rotates and as it does a different part of the earth has sunlight and yours does not. So assuming your question is what if the earth stopped rotating and the sun was always shining on your location, then the answer would be that your location would get very hot and the other side of the earth very cold.

Answer 5

Thermal exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere will get pertubed... Meaning that the ground and sea spaces will store a lot of radiation heat and could enable a new kind of convection current in the atmosphere as well as in the ocean, thus reformating the whole seasons periods of the whole planet... Photosynthesis will stop absorbing the CO2 in the atmosphere and transform it into oxygen... So probably that after a few centuries, oxygen in the atmosphere will not be found in high enough ratio to permit present life forms to thrive... Essentially, the world will die out inside a century or two, or evolved into another kind of lifeforms...

Answer 6

The weather would be different, animal and plant behavior would be different. Maybe the tides depending on why there was no setting of the sun.

And do you mean just where you live or all over the world?

If all over the world, does that mean there are 2 suns?

EDIT: The other side of the earth would get much much colder, your side would get much hotter. You would never see any stars, weather and climate would change, etc...

Answer 7

If the sun never set, I could swim alot longer in my pool and grow alot more tomatoes and cantaloupes!!

Good question though. Alaska and Canada I believe has 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. They'd have a better answer probably.

Answer 8

One half the earth is Day and another half of the earth is night..

Answer 9

The sun doesnt set...the earth rises every morning.

Answer 10

the sun would never rise. therefore we would have to asume that we had stopped orbiting, which would mean that have the world would turn into the Ice Age.