Should we destroy the sun?

[KaNick]

I love the sun and I love heat. It feels great to sweat and not care. It feels better to take a cold shower after a long run. LONG LIVE THE SUN!

 

[Volum]

We should destory it ASAP.

It makes me feel bad when its sun outside and i sit inside and play Civ for example

 

[LesCanadiens]

About time, its too bright!

What the hell. It's snowing in Calgary, how do you see the sun through the blizzards?

 

[hawai_74]

it always rain here these days, viva el sol!!!

 

[CurtSibling]

Its too damn hot out and its only May.

Everyone hates the heat.

Most people can tolerate the cold.

Therefore, we shall assasinate the sun!

Who is with me?

Grab your rifles and let us all point upward simultaneously!

But you'll all be killed by bullets falling from re-entry!

Hmmm...Yes!
Go on - kill the sun!

 

[Berrern]

OMG how can you complain about the heat in April/May already??

After months and months of -20 celsius it's like beginning a new life when the temperatures rise to +15 and above! So I'll say you're crazy

 

[The Last Conformist]

We'll all be in cryo storage till some malevolent alien race turns up and replaces the Sun.

 

[samildanach]

The better conditioned you are the less temperature extremes will bother you - hot or cold. When I have been out of shape I have found heat to be harder to deal with than cold but I am british.

 

[Halcyon]

No. The sun and I have a kind of truce. I don't blow it up, and it doesn't toast me with its burniness. I intend to keep my word on that one.

The better conditioned you are the less temperature extremes will bother you - hot or cold. When I have been out of shape I have found heat to be harder to deal with than cold but I am british.

All else being equal, I prefer cold to heat, because I prefer wearing a coat to sweating.

 

[the mormegil]

Blow it up? Of course! Why wouldn't we?

I'm actually quite surprised this thread hasn't been closed. The mods must be slacking.

But I'm sure they'll be here soon, so we better organise our plans quickly...

 

[The Last Conformist]

I figure the easiest way of blowing up the Sun would be to increase the value of the permittivity of vacuum - that would weaken the Coulumb repulsion between like charges, which would cause the fusion in the Sun's core to run amok, blowing the thing to tiny bits.

OK, it would also bring an end to chemistry (and hence biology) as we know it, and the same for solid state physics, but I don't think we'd care after the Solar System was blasted clean by the exploding Sun.

 

[Iggy]

Blowing up the sun? It will be the end of frecklisation as we know it.

 

[CurtSibling]

Cgannon, you should move to the frozen North here in Scotland-land.

It is never warm here!
And you never see the sun!

 

[The Last Conformist]

Scotland, frozen North?

 

[CurtSibling]

Scotland, frozen North?

Not as frozen as the land of fine meatballs and fish-liquorice, but cold enough!

 

[polymath]

I think any reasonable person would draw the inference that the sun's destruction is an eminently desirable goal. Or at least, I'm intrigued.

 

[col]

We just need to find the controls.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

I figure the easiest way of blowing up the Sun would be to increase the value of the permittivity of vacuum - that would weaken the Coulumb repulsion between like charges, which would cause the fusion in the Sun's core to run amok, blowing the thing to tiny bits.

OK, it would also bring an end to chemistry (and hence biology) as we know it, and the same for solid state physics, but I don't think we'd care after the Solar System was blasted clean by the exploding Sun.

We only want to destroy the Sun, not the universe! (that can wait for another day

 

[the mormegil]

I figure the easiest way of blowing up the Sun would be to increase the value of the permittivity of vacuum - that would weaken the Coulumb repulsion between like charges, which would cause the fusion in the Sun's core to run amok, blowing the thing to tiny bits.

OK, it would also bring an end to chemistry (and hence biology) as we know it, and the same for solid state physics, but I don't think we'd care after the Solar System was blasted clean by the exploding Sun.

I'd like to think I know what you're talking about, but I don't...

Not as frozen as the land of fine meatballs and fish-liquorice, but cold enough!

Would that be Sweden? 'Cause the Swedish Meatballs from Ikea are amazing!

 

[The Last Conformist]

I'd like to think I know what you're talking about, but I don't...

Simply put, the permittivity of vacuum is a number describing the strength of electric forces. If it was increased, the electric repulsion between objects with the same charge (like atomic nuclei) would be weaker, which would make fusion more efficient, since it would make it easier for nuclei to collide. If the increase was swift enough, the suddenly increased rate of fusion would blow the Sun to pieces.

Changing the strength of electric forces would also change electric potentials around nuclei, which would make electron shells configure differently. Since chemistry is basically about electrons hopping around in various configurations (binding atoms into molecules and crystals in the process), a such change would rewrite the rules of chemistry. Since life as we know it closely dependent on various chemicals (DNA and water, for starters) it too would be changed beyond recognition (and all organisms currently alive would certainly die).

Is that clearer?