jpo234 t1_iros9wb wrote on October 9, 2022 at 9:51 PM

Reply to comment by Krii8 in What would happen if our star became a supernova by CocoLog1

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.

Krii8 t1_irq7ggj wrote on October 10, 2022 at 5:06 AM

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)

> 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.