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BabyPoops
I want to see this movie.
DrDherp
67k mph isn't really meaningful. That's relative to a point where the sun used to be, sort of arbitrary.
TheBengalKatLady
Well that escalated quickly
SomeLikeItCold
Nice happy ending.
ButterflyHeimlich
Without the sun... what is left for me to praise?
OhMyGodTheyKilledBrianYouBastards
so you're saying we need more global warming in preparation for a missing sun?
Yqup
Noted +1
dxbppf
You should credit VSauce for this
stormegedendarklordofall
@OP
IcyLucario
OP didn't even get it from VSauce, he got it from someone else who got it from VSauce. Its a mess.
lekimdraw
This is all assuming we didnt go hurling into a neighbouring planet
SamaelTheVenomOfGod
That is *astronomically* unlikely.
kreddii
Basically winter in sweden
KurtCobainsWhiteSunglasses
smprov
may be canadians will survive in a peacoat
KurtCobainsWhiteSunglasses
I honestly don't think lapplanders would notice if the sun disappeared, already cold and dark as fuck up there.
Sean5
and a touque, eh.
SonderingStrike
Australians, though used to hot temperatures, still go out in shorts and a T-Shirt, before being mauled by giant Iceworms.
BrontTheGoodBoy
Dude, we're talking about temperatures cold enough to freeze SEVERAL MILES OF THE OCEAN'S SURFACE. Two peacoats.
daimomusic
Yes but still warm enough for a good BBQ
wooitsame
This is a lot to think about before bed. I figured it'd be an appetizer not a four course meal...but thank you!
Yqup
Bon appetit mon ami hahaha
DownvoteMeWhenYouFeelOffended
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/ktf.gif
DownvoteMeWhenYouFeelOffended
and faahrenheiz or something nazilike? Whats that in regular temperature?
darthash473101
Really cold
gambigobilla
th3p0x
They actually calculated the likelihood of that strategy being successful. From the study: "60% of the time, it works every time."
andreouc3000
I bet no one ever said that back in the day when there were three suns
Whwat
lol
Acmer77
Seemed legit until miles and fahrenheits.
Flyndaran
Reality doesn't give a shit what units we use. I like metric for ease of use, but stop with the pretentious BS, please.
cyanide6
This is too deep for someone taking a shit
Neyxx
Stupid science we all know if you the Sun vanishes the shine of God will keep us save and warm
licensetoillite
Oooooooooo, Dancing Jesus! Look at him go, dit dedee heheh. Homer's Web page actually exists
KarlderMarder
Well, I wonder why noone prestented the solution of blowing the sun up to stop global warming
Neyxx
Well we are trying to but people seem to straight out refuse to believe in Allah!
Cata1yst
Why is this tagged under "eat what you want"
Yqup
Look at the name of the post my friend ;)
CapsShield
Im not your friend guy!
FuzzyX
Well if the sun did vanish and all plants die, followed by herbivores, then you could eat any shit you want when no normal food.
ronin1869
You forget the part where we build a train that circumnavigates the world and the rich get to sit in from while the poor sit in back.
fewermelons16
Would you recommend that movie?
cavepainted
I would, just for the ridiculous sequences and art direction. It's a hell of a ride!
SexualConsent
rigello
Earth Always radiates heat. With or without Sun. Sun just compensates the loss.
stormegedendarklordofall
Not enough to distance life the way it functions right now.
rigello
Well, of course planet would freeze and wonder off to darkness! But #3 says 'Earth will BEGIN to radiate heat'. Which isn't accurate.
stormegedendarklordofall
fair point
HolyShitZoom
Would Earth still generate a magnetic field? If not, goodbye atmosphere, hello attack from Cosmic radiation.
Flyndaran
Mars lost most of its atmosphere due to lack of magnetic field protecting it from radiation but nearly all of that comes from the sun.
lnsaneWolf
The main source of radiation come from our Sun, so without Sun our atmosphere would be even better and we have a magnetic field thanks to 1/
lnsaneWolf
To the core of earth, so we would still have a magnetic field as far as we know
owmyribs
If I recall my physics correctly, our magnetic field is mainly generated by the iron in the Earth's core; it's nothing to do with the sun.
mrsuzukiami
I think people assume what they heard about some moons and quasi planets. Using gravity pressure to produce a liquid and functioning core.
Irongient
What a great post. I wonder if there is 'extremeofile' ife on another planet in our solar system?
Flyndaran
All we know for certain is that life requires water, trace elements dissolved in it, and an energy gradient. So some moons may have life.
Flyndaran
Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and maybe even the asteroid Ceres as it's recently discovered to have a partly liquid water core.
Mithi
Europe (the moon, not the continent!) might be a candidate.
vulturedoors
Attempt no landings there.
Mithi
We take no orders from no stinking black slab of roc... mineral.
VinnieJonesDiary
*Europa is the moon, not Europe
Ttsanch
Some people claim there is life in Europe (the continent, not the moon)
cleverbeans
I believe you mean Europa, not Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)
Mithi
Yeah, translation confusion as in I translated where I shouldn't have. Both are Europa (with a proper vowel at the beginning) for me.
Neomechavoltron
None of this matters. the Earth is flat.
IcyLucario
*Earth flies 2-dimensionally into the distance*
notasfatasrickrossyet
What about the asteroid belt though
Davofuzz
The asteroid belt is still 99.99% empty space, chances are you won't hit anything at all moving through it
cleverbeans
Nasa ignores the asteroid belt when launching ships because they distances are so vast the probability of a collision is zero.
UnoMasCerveza
Shotgun of rocks.
brandybows
Surely we would hit something when we don't have gravity to keep us on track
MadHakon
Impacts between two bodies in space are more common because of gravity, which keeps them contained in a smaller area.
Thegandork
Not likely, space is stupidly empty. It only seems crowded because people don't talk about the empty space
notasfatasrickrossyet
Good point
cleverbeans
If you pick a random direction in the sky and go indefinitely in that direction the odds of you hitting something are zero. Space is empty.
stormegedendarklordofall
There is a small chance you would hit something. It is a lot of zeros but there still is a chance.
mactoid
The new life would propagate, form civilizations, eventually a democracy, cycling again downwards by electing Trump!
WHOLEMILK
This is all bullshit, the suns goes away everynight
SwedenAndersson
yes because that is how it works, also the world is flat like your brainz
Scuttlebutte
http://imgur.com/xZ2sEbd
Thismuchistrue
Because the earth is flat.
oscarmatic
Bucky Fuller suggested "sunsight" & "sunclipse" (sunrise/sunset) to help people better understand that the sun was out of view, not gone.
flynnman504
Ken M would be proud
HalfPint3895
I understood that reference
CurlySwede
Wait, suns ?
geekontwowheels
I'm still giggling, well done
PrivateNoodles
I'm sorry but this made me laugh
RitzkinNeverCameBack
Nice one, Wholemilk :)
Felixikone
http://imgur.com/VDRHXVm
GrimDarkRealities
And Ra is reborn each morning! Praise the sun god!
SederHishtalshelus
eveninthefuturenothingworks
And as long enough of us continue to pray really hard it will come back every morning
AtomicSuperMe
yet here we are
strugglingLAKERfan
Yeah it goes right behind the earth so we can't see it
SwedenAndersson
nice troll tho
chepeweb
yahoo answers
foresthillsbob
Thank you for this
papaburr86
Fake news, sad!
rando53
Are you the Ken M of Imgur?
IncognitoCactus42
DutchymcDutchface
oa777
Rarely is this gem of a gif utilized so well. Bravo.
DutchymcDutchface
Haha thanks bro ;-)
nuttinbutts
But seriously
nuttinbutts
Nail on the head
ThePerfectGif
I want to believe this is just sarcasm, like I see every day here on imgur, but I have met too many real life people that would believe this
CandidGamera
Maybe because it's true? Oh wait, I forgot we're on imgur, where people ignore frame of reference and still think they're smart.
craaaaaaaaaaaaig
I can't tell if you're an asshole, trying to be funny, or just stupid af. Pretty sure its all three.
WhySoSeverusSnape
Where are these people?! I have never met anyone even remotely that stupid...
robmehplz
I had a manager at work argue with me that the moon is full every night.
pelusita35
It IS full. Of cheese. Delicious, delicious cheese.
bringingclawstoagunfight
"No crackers, Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!"
newsguycraigevans
I know someone that knows better than "all those stupid scientists" regarding global climate change.
AtomicSuperMe
just remember, there are flat earth members all around the world
WHOLEMILK
In Florida looking at the curvature of the Earth on the horizon of the Gulf I thought how can people believe this is flat
Crawley
Underrated comment. Well played. +1
ILikeSciFi
Globe*
minc3r
I too love VSauce
svtv1
Gab Gab gab
snivy642
Heeeeeeeeeeey VSauce. Michel here. Now...i'm a living thing but what is........................life?
harambesghost18
How it felt when I lost her.
liliantbn
I wish he would have placed the link to the source. The least someone can do when taking content is to give credit and link to the original.
Br0verlord
I was thinking the same thing. No source either. Makes me sad.
magicalmysteryhoe
Same
dirtbikerdan
But at what point do canadians wear long pants???
TobyHinloopen
This is XKCD
OneMillionBigMacsPlusOne
Checking comments for exactly this
CharlieMcShane
Hey VSauce, plagiarism here.
Kazew
Got source on that? I'd like to see it
Synophmn
I'm not sure which video it is, but they're all great and informative. Go crazy.
Synophmn
I'm not sure which video has this, but here's the library. They're all great and informative. https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce/videos
Kazew
thanks
CrystalMethamphetameme
Michael here.
XaviersSnakeArm
5 scientific reasons to kill yourself
wherearemytesticles
Want some spit facts?
iJustLikePrettyStuff
What would happen . if the Sun.... dissappeared? :O
firepower412
*Jake Roper's music commences*
CrystalMethamphetameme
Before we figure that out, we have to understand that the earth rotates around the sun at a certain speed. 67,000 miles per hour, in fact.
Intr0naut
*duunnnn...dunnnn...*
thisismybraintalking
I loose it when he pops into frame. It's so silly. :D
Izael
It's like his trade mark, and I love it
CaptCoolBeans
I love it my mate hates it.
ArchangelsBlade
I saw Brain Candy, and it was basically that. It was amazing.
CaptCoolBeans
You should watch Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
spicepoet
It's pretty much straight out of Randall Munroe's book "What If" ... he's the guy who does XKCD if you need a reminder.
Baltach
But in that book the sun just becomes a cold, inert sphere. Pages 248-251 in the UK edition.
floatationman
Pretty much the same from a thermodynamic standpoint. We would just be freezing while in the same planetary orbit.
Baltach
True, all we would miss is the infinitesimal chance of being captured by a new star.
cuzitsthere
I want that book. Commenting to remind myself to look it up
flightlessfruit
https://what-if.xkcd.com/
pengu228
It's like a straight plagiarism
magicalmysteryhoe
Jup, i was thinking the same
Arcian
As opposed to gay plagiarism?
Unst88
Burn
Orochizilla
No, ice cold
OfficialJoeBiden
-100 Fahrenheit.
nudewizard
BigVag
In other things that will NEVER happen: imagine Emma Watson and Scarlett Johannson in your bedroom.
swagb98623
Watson would whine about your fantasy contributing to rape culture and Johannson would ask for more money.. can they both be gagged?
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
That is so far from the point I don't even know where to start.
CheshirePhoenix
What if I bought a mansion in Hollywood Hills and tried to sell it and they both came to the open house? WHAT THEN, HUH!? TAKE THAT!
TechKiddz
Lew4731
Too late. I was already doing that.
drivokintobor
it was good, but nothing terribly amazing... but enough about last thursday night
LookingCaliforniaFeelingMinnesota
Well it'll never happen this week...
FuzzyX
They would slap you for the very unspoken dirty thoughts in your head then leave together.
JuanNieves
I like to think that within my lifetime it is more likely for them to show up than for the sun to magically vanish without first exploding.
crynosjf
Great combination of ladies right there.
SexualConsent
Not with THAT attitude
Irishda
Considering their differing body types, that's like having a celery stalk with a burger
GermFaceIsTaken
They are going through my sock drawer again, aren't they?
Doopapotamus
Well, sex would be impossible. However, we could get a nice round of Uno going; that's theoretically not impossible.
AspiringGoodMotherfucker
DO posters count?
RayCharlesBukowski
I would orbit them for 8 minutes before I realized they weren't there.. of you know what I mean. Wink.
dethmetalgear
Like on TV?
Impossibrew
Can I imagine Maria Brink and Taylor Momsen instead?
pancreas
dude. you're my kind of guy.
IWonderIfICanUseThisMeme
No, it must be Emma and Scarlett for the scenario to work. Otherwise the moon will vanish instead of the sun
Impossibrew
but i like Maria and Taylor way more that those two
RayCharlesBukowski
This isn't about you. It's about physics.
Impossibrew
to hell with physics. my pipedreams supersede that
TangoIndiaTangoSierra
Well, the sun will die, eventually. Not anywhere near our lifetimes or the next generations, but it will die. So, one day, eventually, you(1
NameUser10
But not "vanish" as this hypothetically asks
CorvusBelli
There's a vast difference between "Sol will disappear" and "Sol will die".
trustworthyfart
It will consume us in righteous flame before any of this could happen.
TangoIndiaTangoSierra
Will get laid, maybe (2
BigVag
Im old. Ive had so much sex it's annoying at this point. Id rather have a nice cup of tea and a wank
Ionlycommentfinggold
LongCommentChainAppreciator
SoupAHoTFier
Beat me to it
Skittleballs
But it won't just vanish. This particulsr scenario is impossible. The who supernove thing or whatever will feel dramatically different.
MediaBiasCheckerFanboy
What if we consume the sun for energy, and by accident, took it all at once? I wouldn't say impossible.
WhySoSeverusSnape
Why are you using the word impossible in a world you know nothing about?
Leafus
We'll be dead before the sun even explodes, as it will expand first.
FuckPHP
The sun will never explode. It's not big enough. It will just expand and then use all it's energy and die.
TheUpdootist
Supernova = instant ded
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Well not instant, since the supernova's usually eject matter and radiation at 10% of the speed of light. We'll have 80 minutes :D
TheUpdootist
Slightly less than instant ded* but in the scheme of things (like in a cosmic scale) whats 80 minutes vs a couple seconds?
Bipandazomg
What if it already happened once tho :OOO
ImKimJongUnAndEverythingIsFine
No more battlestar galactica for you, young man.
Gregrox
It didn't. The Earth isn't in a capture orbit, it's right in the plane of the solar system and has low eccentricity, low distance.
tunaexecutiononatoastedbun
I suspect a billion-year-long deep freeze would be indicated in the fossil record.
michonnedisapproves
GoogleFucker
It most probably already has. Just not to our solar system/earth. Anywhere else is fair game
lotsofpulp
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7TKSjRrfIPjeiVyM/giphy.gif
jannemank
'once', hehehe
Squidhatjenkins
FUCK THO...
Orpheus
All this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
johnnyratbastard
BoredMartian
Where is this from?
pussyface
Storks movie
wgrabes
It's Tim and Eric!
johnnyratbastard
Ice age 2: Continental drift.
MintMoths
Cory in the House
Naeaes
Stars don't just vanish like that.
stuffIfindfunny
How would YOU know, you're not a star!
Naeaes
My mom said I am! I was a door in a preschool play. I even remember my line: "Knock knock knock!" Now I do that is, not back then.
PickIeRick
Swallowed by a black hole, but planet escapes?
Flustercuck
He said, as the star vanished.
Yrmsteak
There's always a bigger fish
Pyronixcore
Yeah! And even if they did, the earth's geology tells us that all the bodies on our SS are made of the same star material and age.
meolkmeolk
Richard Simmons did.
wienerpolice
This is underappreciated
Izael
Yes they can, but the prob. of it happening to a star as massive as the sun is nearly zero. ( it won't disappear, but wrap somewhere else)
Izael
Because you know; nothing can disappear with the law of the conservation of the mass (sry English isn't my first language). Saw it on vsauce
Lollooooo
But what if they do
FuzzyX
Well technically if stars do rarely vanish it would be unlikely for astronomers to notice.
alexott91
The latest astronomers died frozen tho
MisterMagooCanDance
They leave a note?
Ransbear
They fucken explode.
bringingclawstoagunfight
J. Walter Weatherman would be proud.
Muddyy
Death star?
Gorillionare
Didn't that explode like a motherfucker?
Sharpie12
I think you mean the star killer base from episode 7 you know the one that uses stars as fuel
thebiggestblackestdick
But comets change the orbit of planets all the time. All it would take is a very large mass passing close to earth.
anonomoustache
Not to eject us from the solar system. Large passing objects can have an effect but not likely enough to pull us out of our lagrange.
TheFalseDuck
"All it would take"
HotelTV
+1
anonomoustache
Even if it somehow were possible to alter our orbit we would simply fall into a new orbit around the sun.
BennyBoiz
Dontcha know that if the earth were 16 feet farther itd be too cold, and that if it were 16 feet closer it'd be too hot. ????????
HolyShitZoom
Dunno man, what if you shut your eyes tight and wish really really hard?
JimKongElectricEel
When you wish upon a starrrr... makes no difference who you arrre...
CirclejerqueDuSoleil
*look over there while I steal your caaaar
TheHeathLedger
Wish it to a shooting star...
BobbyBobbston
Okay, gonna do tha- fuck, my shooting star vanished
LucifersDoge
Idk enough about the Big Bang theory but I mean the universe could be a lot older than we think. So like believe in the hypothesis, like me
AtomicPotato7
We're fairly certain the universe is ~14 billion years old and the earth is ~4.6 billion years
somewhatwiseguy
I've always wondered how they arrived at that conclusion regarding the universes age genuinely curious
Bisright
Study physics then.
NeverForgetTravolta
What they did is measure how far we were able to see out into space, because that lets us know what light has reached us. They then 1/?
NeverForgetTravolta
calculated how long it would've taken for light to travel for that distance, and that would let them know how long light has been 2/3
LazyLazyDog
There's a sci fi story idea. We r the new earthpeople. Then the old earthpeople ressurrected from deep in the oceans. War !!!
HD226868
So... Lovecraft?
Arget
You should probably read "The darkest of nights"
littleman00
Link please?
bundleofwoodensticks
"You should read" + TITLE generally implies a book. Haaaaaaaave you met amazon?
littleman00
I did. Nothing comes up that sounds close to this.
LazyLazyDog
I knew somebody must have thought of that. There are no more new stories to be told. :-)
geekontwowheels
I forget, does gravitational influence travel at the apeed of light? Would we orbit the nonexistent sun for 8 minutes after it vanishes?
gardsy
Yep that's exactly how it would work.
FourthVoice
The speed of light is the speed of causality. An event at point A won't affect point B until time t=distance/c. That applies to all forces.
Thekingofbeans
All mass-less particles travel at the speed of light.
thecolonels
Without any data on gravitons how can you be certain? Jk its derived from the infinite range of gravity and EM radiation
Solusphere
The speed of light is infinite. It's CAUSALITY that has a speed limit, and light is subject to that, as is everything else.
Solusphere
Simply put, a cause cannot ever propogate an effect faster than the speed of light.
Ryebread91
So it wouldn't be like those planes on a string you spin around and cutting the string?
twozerooz
Its exactly like that, but even that string isnt instant. If you were to view it in slow mo, youd see a wave ripple across the string as
CheshirePhoenix
Or like dropping a slinky that you've held up and stretched out. The bottom end of it hovers while the top end drops down to it.
twozerooz
You cut it, and the plane wouldnt technically "de-orbit" until that wave hit the plane
ImGonnaSquirtHnnnnnggggg
You just blew my mind.
lyricallove
Whoa, good question! I didn't even think about that.
Mithi
We always orbit the now nonexistent sun from eight minutes ago!
Circumsizedfish
Well that just gave me fucking anxiety.
cassikuzh
Boom. Mind blown.
alsoAzrael
The really scary thing is that we can't even say that, since the term "now nonexistent" is meaningless due to simultaneity being relative.
CandidGamera
Nonexistent. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
twozerooz
Do you think the sun of 8 minutes ago exists in the present? ;)
clnoy
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
somekindafuckingidiot
yes, einstein proved it
CreatureFromtheBlackLegume
What about Newton's laws?
cleverbeans
It bothers me when people say stuff like this. You don't prove anything in science you just verify it experimentally.
maskedfox007
Right. Like all the talk about ages of planets and what not. We have no way of knowing 100%. Just that more than likely we think we're rigbt
MrSisterFister
You're being pedantic. Some stuff can be "proven" from previous assumptions without any experiment.
somekindafuckingidiot
dude im actually the exact same way, it annoys me when people say stuff like "scientific fact". but at the same time, this is imgur. c'mon
clobberdonk
Yes. The impossible thing here is for mass to wink out of existence like this scenario depicts.
FuzzyX
Should the Sun ever get hit by an anti-matter star then no more Sun but enough gamma rays to kill all Earth life.
BilldeTurlock
!
utgort
Why does the word vanish imply cease to exist?
Humanadvisor
Look into the properties of empty space
SovereignPhantasmia
Lemme just as your mom.
Slvrdgr
...What mass is winking out of existence? The sun? It's a star, it will die at some point in Earth's existence..
sandybuttcheeks
Just because it dies doesn't mean it's mass vanishes. It'll just change into a black hole or white dwarf if it doesn't become a nebula.
SchitzzPoppinov
Our sun needs to be 3x bigger to go nova and create a black hole
CorvusBelli
There's a vast difference between "Sol disappears" and "Sol dies".
russianaturi
Improbable, not impossible. That's where quantum mechanics comes in.
wobbu
No... Impossible.
Izael
Finally someone who knows his shit lol
GuardsmanMiku
it has to, otherwise you could alter the mass of an object and through gravity achieve FTL communication
BC2k2
Yeah David Weber did this in the Honor Harrington books.
geekontwowheels
Excellent point!
willtroll4nudes
Well I suppose the other possibility is it could move STL.
toiletimp
If you have a taught rope from England to NY and pulled, you would feel it instantly on the other end. Molecular interactions can be FTL.
GuardsmanMiku
ahh, the old light-year-stick question. Nah compression only happens at the speed of sound.
DrSparken
No, you would not. Molecular interactions are mediated by the electromagnetic forces, which are carried by photons, which travel at c.
raminagrobis
deformation travels at the speed of sound https://www.quora.com/Is-the-speed-of-deformation-in-material-equal-to-the-speed-of-sound-in-it
DrSparken
Yes, the actual propogation is at the speed of sound in the material - but no matter the material, that fundamentally cannot exceed c as 1/
Stravothalem
It actually doesn't. The speed of the pull is still information, and has to travel the length of the rope at the speed of light.
raminagrobis
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-speed-of-deformation-in-material-equal-to-the-speed-of-sound-in-it
raminagrobis
this is wrong, mechanical deformation travels at the speed of sound
Stravothalem
Thank you sir.
chargeling
You make altering mass sound so easy…
TheJuggernaut
Just need some Element Zero...
GuardsmanMiku
bad wording on my part, but you could move mass and achieve the same result
cassikuzh
Learn about this one trick that has physicist mad!
Tarmaccian
It is one of the easier methods of fucking with the universe...
chargeling
Is it? If you convert mass to energy, its gravitation does disappear, no?
BearToof
This made me extremely happy.
GuardsmanMiku
??
BearToof
Just the thought that if gravity was FTL it would be a boss way to communicate. I imagine a very interesting device. That's all.
Arkayb33
This is how warp drive works if I remember correctly
GuardsmanMiku
it depends, no real life concept warp drive works this way
Arkayb33
Well I'm talking about the warp drive that actually works, the kind from that documentary, "Star Trek."
GuardsmanMiku
If youre talking about the Alcubiere drive which I assume u are, that works by compressing and expanding space time, which is very different
CheddarIsBeddar
Fun fact: FTL communication might be possible with Quantum Entanglement.
isildur
1/2 According to all leading physicists, no. No meaningful communication of new information is possible. All that matches is randomized
isildur
2/2 stuff like polarization.
CheddarIsBeddar
TY for the info!
CheddarIsBeddar
:-( "[SL] communication is [...] impossible because, in a Lorentz-invariant theory, it could be used to transmit information into the past."
PietroAretino
Explain/Elaborate or post reference text I can read please :)
SchitzzPoppinov
FTL is faster than light of that is what is confusing you
PietroAretino
No I understand FTL. I didn't understand what he meant by achieving FTL via altering gravity. But I get it. Too bad that isn't the case.
PietroAretino
Because FTL communication will become very important should we actually go out and colonize. Even within our own solar system. THANK YOU.
GuardsmanMiku
if gravitational effects travelled instantaneously, you could move a mass at one point, and an observer lightyears away could detect 1/2
GuardsmanMiku
this movement instantaneously by observing the change in its gravitational influence, hence instantaneous FTL communication
JustinCleary
That explanation was extremely concise. +1
leatheryjowls
To clarify, you mean they could observe its influence on an object nearby themselves, not the moved object. I see.
PietroAretino
Thank you commiepenguin. That makes sense.
JustinCleary
Has there been any research that has been able to clock the speed gravitational effects travel?
MrBananaBeak
Yes. This was part of Einstein's theory of relativity and was proven in 2003, and again this past year when we detected gravitational waves
paddythelion
"We".
generalsplayingrisk
Yes we. I don't know about you, but I helped a great deal. Moral support is very important.
CreatureFromtheBlackLegume
What about Newton's laws?
IlikedogsANDcats
He predicted so many thing's theories. We are now a 100 years later evaluating it and still cannot prove him wrong most of it. Creepy skart
eetsumkaus
I think what non physicists fail to appreciate is how prolific the guy was. He was influential in every single branch of modern physics
pvtwestbrook86
Except quantum physics seemingly breaking the universal speed limit. He's wrong somewhere, we just don't know where.
DrSparken
State is shared faster than light, but information cannot propagate that fast. You do not actually know that the state has been shared at 1/
DrSparken
that speed until after communicating at c with the other observer to confirm. 2/2
viusing
Quantum physics is a load. Spin two magnetic balls beside each other (quantum paired/entangled atoms), and of course they will continue...
viusing
Scientists freak out when measuring said spinning balls at the same time, after moving them apart, and finding the readings match...
iceman3524
Nah man, quantum isn't wrong, it's just crazy.
idiotn00b
what if he was a time traveler from before the previous sun disapeared :o
oStaiko
It's also physically impossible for something as massive as the sun to just disapear
Yavin1v
as far as we currently know
GoogleFucker
without killing us instantly in the process. Like, the only way for the sun to disappear would be a supernova, and guess who all would die?