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Can the Earth produce its own light?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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7y ago

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The question regarding if the Earth could exist with just artificial light is interesting. The planet is dependent on the sun for more than just light so the answer would be no. For a short term it could be possible but this duration would be very brief. The sun provides the heat that enables our life climates. Our distance from the sun keeps temperate zones life has evolved with. The oxygen needed is produced mostly by photo-plankton in the oceans. That would be impossible to duplicate on a global scale with artificial light. Fuel sources to provide artificial light as well as heat would be depleted within a short time. Our current technology is not sufficient to enable us to live on the Earth with artificial light at this time.

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The Earth reflects almost all light from the sun, but radiation from the sun hitting the earth's magnetic shield creates light (the northern/southern lights).

no comes from our Sun

Not in the way the Sun can. The Earth produces light during lightning storms, and by revealing molten (glowing) lava. If you include life, some of it is bioluminescent. But the Earth does not produce vasty quantities of light and radiation like the Sun does -- its mass is far too small to support nuclear fusion.

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