If the sun stoped what would happened?

Question

As in stop fusing atoms, stop everything, Even gravity stoped, light stoped, wouldn't planet Earth and other planets move in stright line toward deep space?


What would happen if Earth stoped rotating? or orbiting or even both?

The Fanatics have a reverse anwser to your anwsers, they said that everything stood still b/c of the sun stoped.

Answer 1

We wouldn't know about it until 8 minutes later...

Answer 2

You would die very quickly...no air to breathe.

Gravity is what keeps the air here at the surface of the Earth instead of having it drift of into space.

Next, with no gravity, you, yourself would float of into space with no means of controling your movement upwards or downwards once fixed things were out of your reach.

Naturally if the Sun's nuclear fusion were to stop, things would get pretty cold, pretty fast. So maybe in your death you would have a cold night or two beforehand.

The direction that the planets would move depends upon where they were in their orbital paths around the Sun. They would not all move off in the same direction... Deep Space is any direction away from the Earth, or in this case the Sun...

Answer 3

if somehow you could magically remove the sun right now at an instant, the planets would begin to travel outwards, and in a straight line, temporarily because they are already in motion. the sun's gravity keeps all of our planets in our solar system from traveling outwards. our earth's gravity is not strong enough to keep the moon at a constant distance. it is getting further away from the earth every day. eventually that will change our entire weather pattern on the earth. you have to also remember that there are billions of stars (suns) in the milky way galaxy. eventually everything would be pulled in by another star or black hole and our solar system would be absorbed by another solar system. that is assuming that none of the planets collided with any other planet or star.

Answer 4

The Sun radiates light particles continuously which is our source of energy.
The sun was said to have stood still.Actually it was an eclipse.
If the sun stopped radiating energy the Earth biological lfe would cease.If all galxies wer not moving ,the Universe would not remain as a structure.
This is a very dim and gloomy view of the Universe. Where did these questions arise from?

Answer 5

pitaboy is right.

We also would all die within about 3-4 days as the earth froze. Most other life would prob be dead within a week or so. Except maybe deep sea life

Answer 6

If the sun stopped I would then trust my daughter.

Answer 7

Solar powered watches would be obsolete.

Answer 8

all i know is we'd be dead, isn't that all that matters.

and no, i don't know how we would die, except that all the plants on earth would die, so we would be screwed.

Answer 9

isn't this called a super nova