How Will Our Solar System End

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Discussion Overview

The discussion explores various hypotheses regarding the potential end of our solar system, including astronomical events and speculative scenarios. Participants consider both scientific theories and imaginative ideas.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants propose that the sun will expand into a red giant, potentially engulfing the inner planets, including Earth, as it runs out of hydrogen and begins burning helium.
  • Others suggest that a rogue black hole could enter the solar system and pose a threat to its stability.
  • There is mention of the sun expanding significantly in the future, with concerns about the effects on Earth, including the vaporization of oceans.
  • Speculative ideas include the possibility of alien civilizations destroying the solar system through advanced technology.
  • Some participants express uncertainty about the accuracy of their claims, indicating a lack of consensus on the details of these scenarios.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants present multiple competing views regarding how the solar system might end, with no clear consensus on any single scenario.

Contextual Notes

Some claims depend on assumptions about future astronomical events, and there are unresolved details regarding the mechanisms of the sun's evolution and the nature of speculative scenarios.

The Grimmus
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I was wonding how out solar system will end.

Simple enough
 
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It could be by our sun expanding so muhc it engulfs everything.
 
you mean like after it collapes or just it gets too large or too powerful
 
When the sun runs out of H, it starts collapsing and starts burning He (into C), at which time it expands and becomes a red giant (burning up the Earth in the process). After running out of He, it collapses into a white dwarf.
 
Maybe a rouge black hole could drift into our solar system and suck us all up, i think i was told that could happen.
 
Yeah i read that in a few billion years, the sun will expand 2000 times its normal size, engulfing Mercury and Venus. Even if it does not engulf Earth, its light rays will vaporize our oceans and life will end.
Mathman has the other part correct. I'm not so sure if what i just wrote is 100% correct, because i haven't read the part where it explains about how the Solar System will end in this book that i have.
 
yea but before that a race of evil aliens might come along and destroy the entire solar system.
 
Originally posted by Andy
yea but before that a race of evil aliens might come along and destroy the entire solar system.
lmao!
Well that could happen, yes...they'd surround the entire solar system, coz they'll probably think that we'd be able to escape, but they're wrong, no we cannot escape coz of our technology, how low it is teehee!
They'd attach a bomb to each planet and its moons. A bomb that explodes so monstrously, that it expands 5000 times larger than the sun hehehehe
 
They would create a huge temproal anomaly that would wipe out all life on Earth and everything that has ever been influenced by mankind!
 
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Great to see you kids have such a vivid
imagination
 
  • #11
Originally posted by The Grimmus
I was wonding how out solar system will end.

Simple enough

Two words: Carrot Top
 
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Great to see you kids have such a vivid
imagination

Vivid?
 
  • #13
Originally posted by Andy
Vivid?
?What are you asking?

Vivid = Active or Hyperactive lol
 

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