China's 'artificial sun' set a new world record on Thursday by running for 1056 seconds at high plasma temperature, the longest duration for an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor, Xinhua News Agency reported.
The sun is powered by gravity, so no. I guess you could maybe try to speed up its natural death by dumping a bunch of elements heavier than hydrogen into it, but I doubt there's enough matter in the entire solar system to do that. Idk, I'm not a star guy.
Not saying it's really feasible, but iron poisoning would do it. Just chuck enough iron (read: a few Jupiter-sized masses of iron. This is the bit that's unfeasible) into a main sequence star and you've basically shoved a control rod into a nuclear reactor, except instead of just quietly shutting down it either slows fusion enough to trigger a red giant expansion or just shuts the star's fusion off entirely, resulting in a nova.
Actually both of these possibilities would also nuke earth in the process, so, uh, teleport it into a black hole?
Is there even a scifi theoretical way to destroy the sun without also just outright destroying the earth?
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Who would win?
🌞 A hyper-colossal ball of flaming plasma
or
🌍 One Wet Boi
The sun lol
The sun is powered by gravity, so no. I guess you could maybe try to speed up its natural death by dumping a bunch of elements heavier than hydrogen into it, but I doubt there's enough matter in the entire solar system to do that. Idk, I'm not a star guy.
Not saying it's really feasible, but iron poisoning would do it. Just chuck enough iron (read: a few Jupiter-sized masses of iron. This is the bit that's unfeasible) into a main sequence star and you've basically shoved a control rod into a nuclear reactor, except instead of just quietly shutting down it either slows fusion enough to trigger a red giant expansion or just shuts the star's fusion off entirely, resulting in a nova.
Actually both of these possibilities would also nuke earth in the process, so, uh, teleport it into a black hole?
If we can teleport shit, it'd be easier to just teleport the earth out of the sol system and away from the sun lol.
Yeah but we're trying to blow up the sun here.