sunshine

catefrances
catefrances Posts: 29,003
edited April 2007 in A Moving Train
just had a thought whilst reading about this new movie, sunshine

if the sun dies, does that mean our solar system will collapse in on itself?
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  • korby
    korby Posts: 298
    well. it certainly wont b very warm anymore ...?
    its ok
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    korby wrote:
    well. it certainly wont b very warm anymore ...?

    thats for sure. i'll have to buy me some mittens. :D but i was thinking if the sun ceases to exist as a source of energy then won't that mess with the orbit and gravity in some way?
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  • korby
    korby Posts: 298
    well. we may lose our light too. although we can still admire the stars
    its ok
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    korby wrote:
    well. we may lose our light too. although we can still admire the stars

    somehow i don't think light will matter if the solar system has collapsed. :D
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    if the sun ever dies everything on earth will too..pretty simple.
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  • korby
    korby Posts: 298
    well that just sucks.
    its ok
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    if the sun ever dies everything on earth will too..pretty simple.

    that was not my question.
    i am aware of the implications for life on earth. i was just curious as to what people would think would happen to the universe.
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    catefrances wrote:
    that was not my question.
    i am aware of the implications for life on earth. i was just curious as to what people would think would happen to the universe.
    ohh ok..i don't know. geez that's a thoughy.. after all i'm no scientist or anything :)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    ohh ok..i don't know. geez that's a thoughy.. after all i'm no scientist or anything :)

    i'm no scientist either, just curious. :)
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I'm no scientist either, but I really like the pictures at the Hubble Telescope website, so I look there often, and I think that we've observed both the birth and death of stars, it happens all the time ... and our sun is a very small star, so my guess is that the implications for the universe wouldn't amount to much. Our solar system would obviously be done though, our planets would go hurtling through space without the sun's gravity to keep them in orbit.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    hippiemom wrote:
    I'm no scientist either, but I really like the pictures at the Hubble Telescope website, so I look there often, and I think that we've observed both the birth and death of stars, it happens all the time ... and our sun is a very small star, so my guess is that the implications for the universe wouldn't amount to much. Our solar system would obviously be done though, our planets would go hurtling through space without the sun's gravity to keep them in orbit.

    yes, by universe i meant solar system cause when i say universe i actually do mean solar system, rightly or wrongly. :)
    i never thought of it that way mom. it never occurred to me that the planets would just float off into space until they got pulled into another sun's orbit or whatever.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    catefrances wrote:
    yes, by universe i meant solar system cause when i say universe i actually do mean solar system, rightly or wrongly. :)
    i never thought of it that way mom. it never occurred to me that the planets would just float off into space until they got pulled into another sun's orbit or whatever.
    That much I know for sure because I saw it on Nova (that's a PBS science show) :D They explained the whole thing with Newton's and Einstein's theories, and I forget all of that, but I remember the pictures of the planets sailing away.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    hippiemom wrote:
    That much I know for sure because I saw it on Nova (that's a PBS science show) :D They explained the whole thing with Newton's and Einstein's theories, and I forget all of that, but I remember the pictures of the planets sailing away.

    cool.

    i think i saw too many disaster films in the 70s, so i always go for the more dramatic. :D
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  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    I was all in a good mood..and now this thread! dammit why does life have to be so complicated? Heaven better be a stress free environment that's all i can say!!
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    catefrances wrote:
    cool.

    i think i saw too many disaster films in the 70s, so i always go for the more dramatic. :D

    http://www.stevemcqueen.nl/img/dvd/the_towering_inferno.jpg



    :p
  • korby
    korby Posts: 298
    do people really care ?

    the powers that be want to use it to control or for weapons

    and other avoid it. afraid of exposure or being burned.

    me, im a sunworshipper. im gonna bask in it this summer
    its ok
  • Marie Curie
    Marie Curie Posts: 1,250
    catefrances wrote:
    that was not my question.
    i am aware of the implications for life on earth. i was just curious as to what people would think would happen to the universe.


    The sun will eventually die and nothing is going to happen to the universe
    “Life is life everywhere. Life is in ourselves and not outside us. There will be men beside me, and the important thing is to be a man among men and to remain a man always, whatever the misfortunes, not to despair and not to fall - that is the aim of life, that is its purpose.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I don't invest much belief in cosmology.

    Supernovas happen all the time and the universe hasn't collapsed.

    We would be dead though.
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  • rigneyclan
    rigneyclan Posts: 289
    catefrances wrote:
    just had a thought whilst reading about this new movie, sunshine

    if the sun dies, does that mean our universe will collapse in on itself?

    Nothing will happen to the Universe. Stars die all the time, Supernovas are proof of this.

    As for the life span of the sun,.. In 5 billion years, the Sun will become a red giant, its outter surface will expand to about where Mars' orbit is now. Then, sometime later, the Sun will become a White Dwarf and eventually die out.
    7/16/06 7/18/06
  • korby
    korby Posts: 298
    i just hope I m long gone before that shit happens. I dont want to see the sun consume the world and destroy it.

    ill try not think about it when i am on the beach this summer
    its ok

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