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End of world..
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There's no knowing when world will end, anyhow. The earth have survived many asteriods, meteroites, earthquakes, etc. I believe the Earth is several billion years old, but the sun is older than the Earth.
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Let's ask yourself how could the Sun survive that long at least several billion years that you believe?
What is its energy source that Sun uses? How come it never run out since several billion years and still is on the fire?
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Let's ask yourself how could the Sun survive that long at least several billion years that you believe?
What is its energy source that Sun uses? How come it never run out since several billion years and still is on the fire?
The universe itself is the Sun's source. I know it's odd, but that's how it is.
If the world were coming to an end, I'd go and rob a bank to see if my plans that I created when I was young worked. If not, I'd die in prison but not for long.
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i bet there is going to be at least one person still alive if it ends.
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Let's ask yourself how could the Sun survive that long at least several billion years that you believe?
What is its energy source that Sun uses? How come it never run out since several billion years and still is on the fire?
I don't know how to answer that one because there's no real answer. The sun is like a nuclear ball of fire, so who knows how long it will have left to burn and then die just like the rest of other stars. Be glad it's not a supernova star.
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I wrote a big long answer to this yesterday, but I deleted it because this sounds like a religious discussion to me, which I thought was against the rules, but since it doesn't seem to be going away, here's the gist of it.
The sun's energy source is its weight. It's a solid mass. Find a picture that shows the size of Earth relative to the size of its star. That's how much energy it has. Better yet, try this: Jupiter has almost enough mass to cause fusion by its own gravity. Now, compare the size of Jupiter to the size of the sun. The sun is much larger than Jupiter, and so the sun has far more mass than it needs to cause fusion.
The sun's fuel source is the massive amount of hydrogen that it's comprised of. The sun only burns on the surface. It's definitely hot, and that heat would cause it to be molten were it not for the fact that it's so heavy on itself. Though it's the weight that causes the heat to generate, which causes the fusion that ignites the hydrogen on the surface.
Also, the weight of the sun is what's causing it to be compressed into as small a size as it is. The sun is much more massive than it appears. Were the sun to lose weight, it would grow larger. That is happening, perhaps in simplistic terms. As the sun burns hydrogen, it grows larger. By the time the sun has burned enough hydrogen to begin to stop the fusion process, the sun will have grown so large as to approximately encompass Earth's orbit. That means the sun is extremely huge, and has that much energy to burn, which actually takes billions of years because of the vast quantity of energy stored in it.
By the way, one of the key roles being played here is the law of gravity. The more massive an object is, the more gravity it has. The sun is many times more massive than Earth, and therefore has many times stronger gravity than Earth. There is no structure in your body strong enough to stand on the surface of the sun, even if it were a cool enough spot. The atoms on the sun are actually being squished together by its gravity. That's fusion. That's nuclear energy. That makes the sun hot and ignites the hydrogen, which makes the sun bright.
Our sun is kind of on the smaller side when it comes to suns, which means it doesn't have as much weight, and therefore not as aggressive of fusion taking place, which means its supply of hydrogen will last longer than larger stars. This has the added advantage of allowing the sun to grow as it loses weight, and eventually stop the fusion process. This means that when the sun runs out of hydrogen, it won't be expressed with massively hot energy blowing itself outward, causing itself to collapse on itself and explode. Our sun won't explode. It will just grow dim, and finally shrink to a tiny ball. Tiny .. uh .. still quite a bit larger than Earth. The sun should have enough hydrogen left at this point to be able to support life on Earth for about another 4 billion years.
The sun's energy source is its weight. It's a solid mass. Find a picture that shows the size of Earth relative to the size of its star. That's how much energy it has. Better yet, try this: Jupiter has almost enough mass to cause fusion by its own gravity. Now, compare the size of Jupiter to the size of the sun. The sun is much larger than Jupiter, and so the sun has far more mass than it needs to cause fusion.
The sun's fuel source is the massive amount of hydrogen that it's comprised of. The sun only burns on the surface. It's definitely hot, and that heat would cause it to be molten were it not for the fact that it's so heavy on itself. Though it's the weight that causes the heat to generate, which causes the fusion that ignites the hydrogen on the surface.
Also, the weight of the sun is what's causing it to be compressed into as small a size as it is. The sun is much more massive than it appears. Were the sun to lose weight, it would grow larger. That is happening, perhaps in simplistic terms. As the sun burns hydrogen, it grows larger. By the time the sun has burned enough hydrogen to begin to stop the fusion process, the sun will have grown so large as to approximately encompass Earth's orbit. That means the sun is extremely huge, and has that much energy to burn, which actually takes billions of years because of the vast quantity of energy stored in it.
By the way, one of the key roles being played here is the law of gravity. The more massive an object is, the more gravity it has. The sun is many times more massive than Earth, and therefore has many times stronger gravity than Earth. There is no structure in your body strong enough to stand on the surface of the sun, even if it were a cool enough spot. The atoms on the sun are actually being squished together by its gravity. That's fusion. That's nuclear energy. That makes the sun hot and ignites the hydrogen, which makes the sun bright.
Our sun is kind of on the smaller side when it comes to suns, which means it doesn't have as much weight, and therefore not as aggressive of fusion taking place, which means its supply of hydrogen will last longer than larger stars. This has the added advantage of allowing the sun to grow as it loses weight, and eventually stop the fusion process. This means that when the sun runs out of hydrogen, it won't be expressed with massively hot energy blowing itself outward, causing itself to collapse on itself and explode. Our sun won't explode. It will just grow dim, and finally shrink to a tiny ball. Tiny .. uh .. still quite a bit larger than Earth. The sun should have enough hydrogen left at this point to be able to support life on Earth for about another 4 billion years.
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Our sun is in its Baby Stage, Earth is in its Teen State.
I think.
I think.
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Not baby stage... closer to half id say. The earth is pretty old for a planet though, although theres lots of life to be had. Translate it to 30 years old in human years or so....
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Depends on what you consider to be the stage when it's dead. The stage our sun is in now lasts about 9 billion years, so it's about half way through that stage. Earth should technically last at least that long. It shouldn't be killed by old age unless the sun consumes it during its next stage when it is running out of hydrogen, losing weight, and expanding. At that point, you may consider Earth to be dead when the sun is too close to it and burns the atmosphere away. Or you may not consider it dead until it has been completely consumed by the sun. The sun is in its baby stage if you consider the stage when it has lost all of its hydrogen and shrunken into a small barely glowing ball to be its adult stage. It will last the longest in that stage, but it will give off very little energy. I think I read somewhere that if we were close enough to live off the sun's energy at that stage, we would be so close that it would take us only 5 days to orbit the sun.