Original static webpage version: what-if.xkcd.com/115/
The video goes on to say that if you’d managed to teleport into the core of the sun, you wouldn’t fare so well.
[What If?] Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun?
Submitted 3 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA-Af-JeCE
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I usually feel like I have an intuitive answer to “what ifs?” This one really surprised me to find that the answer is basically “nothing”
dil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And I was then double surprised that being inside the sun for a nanosecond would be so devastating!
So like a jump off 10^3. No problem, should still be fine.
Not even remotely! I didn’t look too close, but the equation he linked has temperature raised to the forth, so a temperature jump of 10^3 would result in 10^12 difference in energy.
Which would increase the 10^-5 J on the surface to 10^7 J. Which explains why you’d only have femtoseconds!
A real double whammy of unintuitive results.
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Yeah I’d have been interested to know how long it would take to suitably warm up from the surface. I guess we’ll never know.