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if the sun were to disappear, how long would it take for you to notice?
by waynesonfire 2y ago
if the sun were to disappear, how long would it take for you to notice?
- tedk-42 2y agoThis doesn't argue their point. If a neutron disappeared, you'd NEVER noticed that causality.
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- kazinator 2y agoTrick question. Am I someone on Earth? (If so, 8 minutes). Or am I in a ship that is hurtling toward the Solar System at 0.999c, roughly in line with the Sun-Earth axis? If so, although I see speed of light as c, the Sun-Earth distance is foreshortened relativistically, so it will be less than 8 minutes between me perceiving the event that the Sun disappeared and perceiving the event that the Earth lost illumination.