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jpo234 t1_irko10q wrote

Since the sun is too small to go supernova according to the laws of physics as we understand them, you can make up whatever you want. Expecting a factual answer to a counterfactual premise does not make sense.

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Krii8 t1_irlskeg wrote

It does. It's like asking what would happen if the earth suddenly stopped spinning. It'll never happen, it can't happen, but you can still do some of the math/physics.

Just because there's a singularity at the end of a black hole, doesn't mean you can't calculate what happens before that...

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jpo234 t1_iros9wb wrote

Let's rephrase the original question:

>If something happens that violates the laws of physics (e.g. the sun goes supernova), what do the laws of physics say will happen next?

Does that make sense to you? We postulate that the laws of physics don't apply and then ask what would happen according to the laws of physics. It's a contradiction.

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Krii8 t1_irq7ggj wrote

The way you phrase it I agree. I don't know how he asked the original question, it's deleted. But I think it would've been rephrased something like

> If the sun could go super nova (thus, if we changed the size, mass, orbits etc relatively) what would happen from this distance (instead of light years away)

Or

> What happens to the planets with life around a star that goes super nova

Some people say words like "earth" because they don't know the lingo. They hear for the first time stars can go super nova and obviously try to grasp it. But people keep shooting them down. It's not alright. Be flexible.

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