Science Question

Originally posted by King Kandy
Before that though we would see a flash and then nothing, like I earlier predicted. And the hot plasma will be flying towards us at similar speeds that we fly away so the residual heat should keep us going for a bit.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I was having a discussion with a friend. I said if you could turn off the gravity that held a star together, the star would explode. He said it would just evaporate. What do you think?

If you could magically turn off gravity, what would happen to a star?

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Originally posted by Naz
Isn't gravity created because a star is so large? I've never actually taken a physics class, this is just what I remember from learning about space in elementary school.

because of its mass, ya

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
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There's a science forum? 😱 Were?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
There's a science forum? 😱 Were?

😛

Originally posted by RocasAtoll
Since the earth would stop rotating, no. If the residual kept up with with the planet, one side would be ice and the other scorched.

While our planet's core isn't subject to the same magnitude of gravitational forces as on stars, it's still under pressure due to gravity. Wouldn't earth, as well as the other planets, "expand" as well? Just not as rapidly as a star?

I was under the impression that only the suns personal gravity was cancelled, not gravity in general. The Earth probably wouldn't take to much damage, most of the stuff on Earth has a pretty good mechanical grip on everything else.

Seeing as we don´t know what gravity is, its a difficult one to answer.

The size of the star and the stage of its lifespan could also be deciding factors.

I think a possible answer is:--. You won´t be able to take gravity away because all matter appears to have gravity, if you were able to( after all never say never) then there would be no matter and no sun. The sun would dissapear into quantum immeasurableness.

Originally posted by King Kandy
I was under the impression that only the suns personal gravity was cancelled, not gravity in general. The Earth probably wouldn't take to much damage, most of the stuff on Earth has a pretty good mechanical grip on everything else.

Yeah just looked at the first post, stars only 🙁

I also never said it would the sun, just a star. 😉

Thats like saying, when asked where you live "a house".

Theres quite a lot of stars, each different than the other.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I was having a discussion with a friend. I said if you could turn off the gravity that held a star together, the star would explode. He said it would just evaporate. What do you think?

If you could magically turn off gravity, what would happen to a star?

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I also never said it would the sun, just a star. 😉

A man shot a deer and when the Buddah walked past he asked him "What happens to a deer's soul when it dies?". The Buddah removed the arrow silently, saving the deer's life.

We were all addressing the more important issue.

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and sym, please do away with the ambiguities in adult convo!

Originally posted by inimalist
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and sym, please do away with the ambiguities in adult convo!

I'll try.

Well I said to drift away because we need a Sun to keep us in gravity otherwise we would pull away, drift. All planets depend on the others especially the sun for keeping in the pull of gravity and keeping our circular, or whatever in the circular motion. If you are saying that a planet all together loses its gravity, then I believe it would become dead in our orbital system. It would be dead unto it's self.

To say that it would implode and such, I don't think so, because it would be dead like a rock. If our own world would cease, our gravity not being there would make all things would die. Our hot inner core would cease and that wouldn't make anything like a Nova, Super Nova or such. I believe we would become like an asteroid type thing that floats around the universe.........

What would cause the core to cool without expansion in the loss of gravity?

Originally posted by King Kandy
What would cause the core to cool without expansion in the loss of gravity?

I do know that when things cool, they expand, but what about the contributing factors of the other solar bodies.