Everyone is curious about what would happen to Earth if the sun disappeared. In short: We’d be hosed.
Popular science educator Michael from Vsauce returns to the web to discuss gravity and the Sun. As a thought experiment, he asks the interesting hypothetical, “What if the sun disappeared?“
It’s not going to happen, but interestingly enough, if it did, we wouldn’t be aware that anything was wrong for a good eight minutes, as it takes that long for light to travel the millions of miles from the Sun to the Earth.
