Hypothetical say somhow in sometime much further we find out that the sun will rapdily decrease its energy. The worlds last test most powerful nuclear bumb produced created around 2% the energy of the sun.
Do you think it would be possible to create an artificial Sun with say a form of Regenitatable Nuclear power or create say our own "plasma lamp" in outer space or to use Earth rich Carbon to create a Carbon star or something? If so which method would be best?
Remember it can be at any distance as long as it heats the earth to a tempature that humans can live
yeah, theyve actually dont it once, but the problem was that it used more fuel than it outputed.... so they have already done it, they just need to perfect it
No. It took millions of years for gravity to get those gases compressed enough to form a Star. Maybe, if we had really good superconducting technology. But it won't matter, because the earth's surface will be thousands of degrees fahrenheit before the sun dies. It has to expand before it goes out, and while it won't vaporize us, it'll get hotter and hotter over millions of years, and then the plasma ejection from it's 'popping' might be lethal as well.
By the time the Sun gets ready to explode we should have the technology to either fix it or survive the blast then make a new one. Of course by then we would be probably beyone the technology of what you see in Star trek so we would probably just move to another planet.
I can imagine that being some sort of Twilight Zone episode, we (U.S) get greedy and find some way to exploit having another sun, for money or oil or something, so we make it, somehow, and it ironically, yet tragically, blows up the Earth or even the Universe, leaving the artificial suns' creator on a planet that's really hot or something. I dunno.
No. It took millions of years for gravity to get those gases compressed enough to form a Star. Maybe, if we had really good superconducting technology. But it won't matter, because the earth's surface will be thousands of degrees fahrenheit before the sun dies. It has to expand before it goes out, and while it won't vaporize us, it'll get hotter and hotter over millions of years, and then the plasma ejection from it's 'popping' might be lethal as well.crucifine
Correct , A cooling sun would be MUCH easier to deal with then a warming sun, just release more greenhouse gases to create.....global warming
If we ever reach a point where we can create a star, we'll have the technology to colonize other planets that have their own working stars. So why build one?
By the time the Sun gets ready to explode we should have the technology to either fix it or survive the blast then make a new one. Of course by then we would be probably beyone the technology of what you see in Star trek so we would probably just move to another planet.
Achilles438
but the sun affects the whole solar system so moving to another planet wouldnt work.
By the time the Sun gets ready to explode we should have the technology to either fix it or survive the blast then make a new one. Of course by then we would be probably beyone the technology of what you see in Star trek so we would probably just move to another planet.
SDog624
but the sun affects the whole solar system so moving to another planet wouldnt work.
I didn't realize our solar system was the only one in the universe.
Nuclear fusion, it's not exactly making a sun but it is a way of getting energy that is somewhat equivelent to a sun. I think, that could just be some bulls*** i heard some place
I am sure we could in the future. But we would need to move earth. Because if our sun was dying, it would turn into a red giant and engulf our planet regardless.
Of course it's possible in theory, but as far as I can tell...the sun doesn't regenerate; it's just going through its life cycle. Perhaps once we fully understand the concepts and outcomes of nuclear fusion and fission, but we don't even fully understand fission yet.
Jupiter ignition is the only remotely viable approach I can imagine, if EXTREMELY large amounts of a super-heavy element could be introduced into Jupiter, the gas giant could begin to collapse as the increased gravity from the new mass overcame the balance of centrifugal force. Assuming sufficient mass, it would eventually reach a supercriticial density where fusion could begin to occur. However, Jupiter would only make for a very small star, would not significantly radiate to Earth and would have a much shorter lifespan than Sol. Actually, if we are talking wacky, impractical technology, a ridiculously high-powered cyclotron could be used to speed the collapse by smashing two mega-high energy particle beams into each other and creating a short-lived primordial black hole to initiate the collapse. That would be tricky though, because you'd have to make sure that the matter infall would be exceeded by the evaporation rate of the black hole.
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