If the sun disappeared in an instant, would the earth leave the sun's orbit and continue off in a straight-line path before the last of the sunlight reached us?
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Jeremiah Ward
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Caleb Cruz
It would take about 8 minutes until the earth flew off on a tangent.
Robert Robinson
so, a disturbance in gravity will move out at the same rate as the speed of light? Would this be the same as the gravity waves they detected recently?
Daniel Powell
Yes and yes.
Anthony Wilson
Luis Walker
Yeah the speed of light is not just an arbitrary speed that photons happen to go, it is literally the speed that all causality propagates through the universe. It's hard to explain, but information being transmitted faster would permit time travel and subsequently paradoxes.
Michael Wilson
Look up quantum entanglement anaonfag. Instantaneous information transfer does exist and has been observed.
Alexander Anderson
Imagine if this happened.
Imagine the mother of all chimp outs that would ensue.
Brody Garcia
>quantum entanglement
>Instantaneous information transfer
ahhahahaha evryteim ahhahaahaahhaaha
Luke Baker
Could humanity survive? The earth would still contain a lot of geothermal energy that could keep us going for millions of years right?
Kayden Campbell
No, without the sun all plants and trees would die.
quantum entanglement =/ information transfer
(you) better look it up
Lucas Diaz
>No, without the sun all plants and trees would die.
We can create lights to simulate the sun though.
John Miller
Forests and pot aren't grown the same.
Kayden Allen
At the same time, gravity propagates at the speed of light.
Bentley Rivera
Imagine I have a $5 bill and a $10 dollar bill, and I put one in each of two blank envelopes, then mix them up so I don't know which is which. I then give one envelope to you, and one to another faggot, and tell you to travel to opposite sides of the Universe. When you get there, and open your envelope, you immediately know what the OTHER envelope contains, and vice versa. This is the nature of the "instant information" entanglement allows, you can't use it to send a message.
Jason Jones
I've thought for years that it would make a great disaster movie. Might be a bit bleak since there's no possibility that anyone survives, and you'd better have an interesting way to shoot scenes set in darkness, but I could see Roland Emmerich fucking the idea up horribly in some dumb summer blockbuster adaptation.
Aaron Hernandez
Old pasta. It's as shit now as it was then.
Nathaniel Adams
What part of the analogy didn't you understand, because it's pretty close to a perfect description of entanglement.
Henry Bell
I'm not a biologist so I don't know if it's possible to grow a large number of plants with artificial light, but if it was you probably could maintain a small human poplulation in subterran caverns. With the temerature on the surface dropping way below freezing quickly, billions would die in any case.
Jacob Martinez
You just decribed how it would be if hidden variables existed.
They don't though.
Eli Green
If we could prepare, say a hundred years, then I guess we really could survive. Not in the numbers we have right now, but some of us could. Problem is that humanity is not very good at handling situations of this scale. No matter how obvious the evidence is that it's going to happen, there will always be lots of people who won't believe it and drive the car into the wall. See climate change.
Jacob Cruz
This is what happens when redditors are allowed here
Eli Martinez
depends on other parameters.
long eliptic orbit around Jupiter or hyperbolic escape.
I'd bet that Mercury would fly away.
Blake Wright
No. Hidden variables implies that there isn't a random choice. The way user described means that even if a message can be send instantaneously between two entangled particles that message is inherently random. So no instant information transfer and thus causality is preserved. You should check the quantum teleportation protocol and you will notice there is a photon transfer at the end of it to verify the correct result.
True. Btfo to reddit please.
Jose Howard
What if I put a bullet in the other envelop? That'll send a fuckin' message
Isaac Edwards
Gravity is just a theory
youtu.be/csULdTh7Xqs
Ryan Taylor
Anything is possible with 'magnetic ZPE' generators
Andrew Martin
That would allow you to communicate instantaneously, so no
Evan Hill
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Landon Howard
>speed of light...it is literally the speed that all [ALL ?] causality propagates through the universe.
Please explain sound
>pic unrelated
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