If the Sun vanished, we wouldn't even notice for 8m 20s. #cosmoknowledge #sun #space #cosmos

[youdontneedmyrealname]

It's how long it takes the server to update.

[Infinat.]

This proves that
Light speed is not only light speed
It's
Space-time speed

[asdfjje]

so we’re orbiting nothing for 8 minutes.

[Alexei-iu]

We wouldn’t notice the Sun disappeared in the next 500 seconds in any way!

[GES]

While it’s true it’s pointless because we only know it when we see it and feel it so it doesn’t matter for our purposes. It happens when it happens not eight minutes ago. If the sun disappears, I’m not gonna be standing there going well that really happened Eight minutes ago. I’m gonna be like holy shit. The sun disappeared.

[Wardyworlds]

Looks more like 6 months in that simulation.

edit- PMSL laughing at those digging the protractor out, I'm surprised those taking my comment literally haven't calculated months plus days yet.

[Eratosthenes_]

It could have happened right now. Will report back in 8 minutes.

[Jproductiins]

Fun fact,
The sun disappears for 12 hours each day.

[nolanprequels]

I remember asking this exact question in AP physics 15 yrs ago when our teacher explained that nothing could exceed the speed of light. Prof thought it was a really cool thought experiment (I guess it wasn’t as original as I initially thought), then stated that Earth would CONTINUE ITS ORBIT 🤯 for about 8 min before flying off toward Jupiter most likely. Blew my mind at the time, and I don’t think I ever fully grasped the concept of the gravity well moving outward, but this visual finally makes it make sense! ❤
Now what I wonder: in the aforementioned 0% chance that the sun just magically vanished without a trace, would the “shockwave” of the gravity well flattening push the Earth in a new direction, or (as seen in the video) merely stop pulling it???

[pleasuregaming]

So there's a speed of gravity?, which is equal to light?

[LucretiaVanPelt]

500 seconds, and then a mega year trip of a dead planet to Proxima Centauri, as a new moon to Jupiter.

[SilentNights]

The glow will fade as we get ejected into the abyss

[TheMotz]

We wouldn't notice anything right after either...flash frozen blackout.

[ReinaPerez-lq]

POV
The Sun disappeared 2 minutes ago but you havent noticed yet

[MICHAELSSJ]

Our universe is expanding at speeds higher than than the speed of light, in other words space is expanding at a faster rate than the speed of light can travel, gravity is a curvature of space. As Albert Einstine said: matter cannot travel faster than the speed of light, but space can do whatever it it wants. In other words if hypothetically the sun where to instantaneously disappear, the effects would be instantaneous.

[AdityaRaj.]

"Bro ran out of memes and started sharing some knowledge."😭😭

[Terrox_]

Imagine a horror movie based off this clip.

[arlenewright-ibrq]

All I want to know is do you see an eclipse in real time, or is that eight minutes behind as well?

[-.--Y..-U...S..-U..-.F]

Light speed is the theoretical max speed thats why.

[Shire_Sam]

Makes you wonder if you would feel anything before the light disappeared. Surely if the suns gravity is exerting influence on us then its removal might also have an effect.