What would, actually, happen if the sun stood still for a minute?
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The sun rotates approximately once for every 27 Earth rotations.  Unlike the Earth, because the sun is gas, it does not rotate at the same rate at all locations.  If the Sun were to stop rotating, it would probably collapse inward possibly resulting in an enormous explosion as the particles within the core became superheated.
1064119
If the sun were any farther from the earth we would all freeze to death. If it were any closer, we would all burn to death.
113625
The car, you, and the headlights would no longer exist.  Light would continue at its usual speed.
500819
Your question is completely hypothetical. Light travels. Gravity does not. Interesting scenario, however. If such were to happen, I really don't know what the answer would be.
577912
About ten minutes after the sun goes supernova
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I believe it would be instantaneous, but it's a fascinating question.  Perhaps the speed of light, because there are those who argue that gravity is another form of energy generally, and the whole "unified field" thing that I confess I do not understand at all.  \n\nI suppose part of the question is how the sun could "suddenly vanish" in the first place.  Would it in fact vanish instantaneously, or at the speed of light?  Even if it fell into a black hole, that would be an event, and events have a place in space/time.  That we would not know it had vanished until the light stopped coming to us some minute or two later (speed of light for 93 million miles), because of the light, then would gravity be following with that light?  The light is, after all, energy and therefore -- says Einstein -- matter, and that's what responds to gravity . . . \n\nGeeze, you make my head hurt with these puzzles.  I hope some really heavy-duty physicist takes a shot at this question!
1038111
100 miles distance is quite insignificant as compared to the millions of Kilometers of the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Nothing will happen except change in duration of day and night for a few seconds.
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No. We would know about it in Eight Minutes. If you think about it, the only way we even know that the Sun is there is by the heat and light that the Sun emits. If it blew up, we would feel the heat of the explosion (heat is slower than light), pieces would fly at us (in a nova ALMOST the speed of light, but not quite), and there would be a burst of light and then darkness (at the speed of light-8 min.) The pieces flying towards us would be getting closer at nearly the speed of light, and they would be emitting light, but light cannot travel faster than light, so it would still take eight minues. Even if we had a thermometer or camera right next to the Sun, radioing back information constantly, those radio waves only travel at the speed of light. Eight minutes.
532994
You'd die before you even reached the sun.  The heat is too intense for anyone to go near it or touch it.  The sun retains the same heat at night time.
523001
It would change the Earth's rotation and the Earth would tilt on its axis. What if all of us asked the same question at the same time that violated one of  Yahoo's community guidelines? Would the system completely break down?
68589
One consequence would be wherever the earth stopped the side with the sun on it would fry and the side without the sun would freeze.  Gravity would be disoriented so the tide wouldn't go in and out as usual.  The list goes on...
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Your question is theoretical and therefore all answers you receive will be theoretical.  I would think that even if it were for a split second, you would feel some kind of pain.  Of course, if you're floating around in space unprotected, you'd be dead before you got there.
616855
The sun is approx 98 million miles away, light travels 186,282.397 miles per second. So we would know ( and die) about 8.768 minutes later
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Nothing, you'd be dead after a second or two. If you did manage to survive, methane.... one big, farty planet.
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Well, that would depend on your point of view.  Since there was no universe in existence before time zero, you would have to be inside of the rapidly expanding newborn universe.  Therefore, inside, there would've been extreme heat and pressures.  My guess is that you wouldn't have noticed any sound as you were boiled away into your constituent atoms.  So, I'm thinking a silent and dark time (as your eyes would've also been boiled off, so there would've been nothing to see with).
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This depends on what you mean by the question.  If the Sun suddenly stopped shining, there would be a delay of some 500 seconds, or 8 minutes and 20 seconds, before the effect would be noticed.\n\nIf the Sun's fusion reactions were suddenly stopped, it would take millions of years for the Sun to cool.  Exactly how long it would take for the outside to stop shining depends on a lot of factors, including how well heat is transported between the inside and the surface, but estimates I've seen are around a few hundred thousand years before the Sun is visibly different.  If the Sun's nuclear furnace turned off tomorrow, measurement of sunlight would not detect that fact for many thousands of years.
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Time standing still at the speed of light is theoretical.  Consider, however, it takes nearly nine minutes for light to travel here from the sun.  Therefore, if something travelling at the speed of light experiences no aging, it's purely relative.