Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun?

What would happen if you spent a nanosecond on the surface of the sun? Would it warm you up, burn you to a cinder, or do nothing at all?

Credits
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Randall Munroe | Narrator
Henry Reich | Writer & Director
Lizah van der Aart | Illustration and Video Editing
Ever Salazar | Chief Chaos Controller
Know Art Studios | Music & Sound Effects

What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the What If? books by Randall Munroe and is produced by Neptune Studios LLC.

Henry Reich is the creator of MinutePhysics and executive producer of MinuteEarth and MinuteFood and founder of Neptune Studios LLC (the parent company for all three youtube channels).

©2024 xkcd, inc.

[biksw]

Okay but since 1 nanosecond does nothing, I was waiting to learn how much time it would take on the surface just for a feeling of brief warmth

[wcjerky]

Visited the sun for a nanosecond. Didn't feel much heat; don't understand what the big deal is. One star.

[gsami]

My favorite quote from Randall "Ive always seen Icarus as more of a lesson of using wax as an adhesive, rather than one of hubris"

[thomasrosebrough]

"Looking I realize I started this sentence with 'The good news'. Not sure why I did that."

Lmao I love you Randall

[conwarlock]

I'd maybe call that reverse blink a peek.

[beiplsv]

I own a book with the worst places to travel to and for some reason the middle of the sun is not listed anywhere in the book. They should make a second version where they include it

[Mega-tlbx]

The surface is too cold, the core is too hot..
Clearly there is a perfect depth where, if there for only a nanosecond, you were warmed to a nice and toasty, say, 30c.

[AnimatedArmour]

0:50 The word "peep" does nicely

[scorb-]

It's very easy. Just go at night, when the Sun is cooler!

[FewVidsJustComments]

I know there isnt a comic about this, so there wont be a video either, but this raises a better question, and probably moreso the one the person was intending to ask, which is "what is the longest fraction of a second you could spend on/near the sun's surface and not have any longterm effects after you returned to earth?"

[Krazylegz]

If 1 nanosecond on the surface is too little, and at the core is too much, that suggests there must be a region inside the sun where spending 1 nanosecond is just right to warm up on a chilly day.

[Limitless_Doom]

3:28 ... except the center of the sun, right?

[DevidCipher]

I just saw the world "Blinkn't" in comments.
I think it gave my eyes about the burn I would recieve if I blinkn't at the sun for 100 milliseconds from 100.000 km.

[SLMusic]

“Don’t spend a nanosecond inside the sun” is one of the most XKCD things ever written.

[realStoneBone]

Now the question is how deep you'd have to go to warm yourself perfectly.

[Luka_Nogalo]

They always say Jupiters Red Eye is the size of earth so I always wondered: what would happen if you were to dip the earth in the clouds of Jupiter? For a second, for a minute, longer?

[Chazulu]

2:22 lmao. If the X-rays penetrate for too long/too far before you teleport out they might not interact in time. Take that half-length absolutists.

[thundermagnet]

0:40 POV: Everyone just blinked at their screen.

[thespacenoob]

the word for blink but in reverse is knilb

[bigmike-]

Fun fact! So there's no "reverse" word for "blink" because blinking is state-agnostic; whether you start with an open eye or a closes eye, the word "blink" specifically describes the action of toggling the state of openess of your eye twice, in succession -- so regardless of if the pattern is open->closed->open or closed->open->closed, it's still described as "a blink" because the term is specifically state-agnostic; so it's not that there's no reverse word for it (though, there isn't), it's more like "the concept doesn't care about the order." If we wanted to be fully pedantic, we'd actually need 2 new words to describe both types of blinking - one for the open->closed->open configuration and one for the closed->open->closed configuration.