What if we poured a bucket of water on the sun?
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What if we poured a bucket of water on the sun?
Throwing water on the sun would simply increase the sun’s mass, which would increase its gravity. This stronger gravity would crush the sun even more, leading to more nuclear fusion. It’s not just that more mass means more atoms to fuse together.
What is the effect of the heat of the sun to the water?
The sun is what makes the water cycle work. The sun provides what almost everything on Earth needs to go—energy, or heat. Heat causes liquid and frozen water to evaporate into water vapor gas, which rises high in the sky to form clouds… clouds that move over the globe and drop rain and snow.
Can we extinguish the sun with water?
The probable answer is “no.” The Sun involves a special type of fire that is able to “burn” water, and so it will just get hotter, and six times brighter. Water is 89\% oxygen BY MASS. And the Sun’s overall density is 1.4 times that of water.
What if we extinguished the Sun?
The pressure inside it would drop. The hydrogen couldn’t fuse together into helium. And that would shut the Sun down. With no Sun to give us warmth and light, the Earth would turn into a frozen world.
What change happens when water in the river evaporates due to the heat of the Sun?
In the water cycle, evaporation occurs when sunlight warms the surface of the water. The heat from the sun makes the water molecules move faster and faster, until they move so fast they escape as a gas.
How would the absence of the Sun affect the water cycle?
Water constantly moves around the Earth and changes between solid, liquid and gas. This all depends on the Sun’s energy. Without the Sun there would be no water cycle, which means no clouds, no rain—no weather!” “And without the Sun’s heat, the world’s oceans would be frozen!” added Marisol.
Would it be possible to extinguish the sun?
The sun is not a chemical fire which requires a fuel and an oxidant. It is a fusion reaction caused by the sun’s own enormous mass. Anything you sprayed at the sun to “extinguish” it would just make it more massive and fuel more fusion.