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If sun were to diasappear how long will it take for us to notice?
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∙ 15y ago
The rough arm-waving numbers that are easy to remember are that the Earth is about 150,000,000 km from the sun and the speed of light is about 300,000,000 m/sec. 300,000,000 m/sec is 300,000 km/sec. 150,000,000 km divided by 300,000 km/sec gives 500 seconds, or 8.33 minutes.
Since it takes approximately 8 minutes 20 seconds for light to get from the Sun to the Earth, if the Sun should go out right now the light that is already on its way would continue to arrive here for that 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Only after that delay would we notice that anything had happened.
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