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Imagine The Earth is The Size of The Sun

How Will the Earth Survive

By Akinshola AdepojuPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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Imagine The Earth is The Size of The Sun
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Ecosystems are disintegrating, trees are falling, and our infrastructure is deteriorating. Water is scarce, and crops are suffering. A planet that is dead is Earth. The good news is that now is the best moment ever to buy a house!

But who can consider real estate when they are confined to their own home?

even breathe, never mind get out of bed?

The sun's size is well known. Look at it, I mean! Just think of how enormous it appears from a distance of around 150,000,000 km (93,000,000 mi)! Just picture what it would appear to be from your perspective if you were close to it! 98% of the solar system's mass is accounted for by the sun. And our own planet Earth, the densest planet, is more than a million times less massive than the sun!

Had Earth the same size as the sun, the planet would be radically different.

Just picture the topography of our entire world extended out. Continents would enlarge, offering desperately needed respite in areas where excessive population is a hindrance to the quality of life. Additionally, purchasing a great piece of property may be more inexpensive than it is on Earth. However, we would now need to take into account the fact that every body of water on the world would have a larger area to cover. Lakes, rivers, and even oceans would be consequently shallower, making them more vulnerable to evaporation and perhaps drying up. Marine life will surely suffer since shallower waters would absorb more solar heat, endangering marine life that depends on cooler waters for survival. Wildlife on land may need to move or travel a great distance for fresh water, which would also put them at risk. Other smaller water sources are starting to dry up. It would be just as dangerous for us as humans. Not only would we likely start fighting over the limited supply of fresh water, but our food crop production would also begin to decline. To grow and absorb the nutrients they require, food crops require a specific volume of soil. Like the water, our soil would need to be dispersed over a much bigger area if our earth were as massive as the sun. Although the demand for food wouldn't change, there would be less food produced due to less soil. Life on Earth becomes virtually impossible when we take into account a different problem that we haven't thought of yet.

Even though it's difficult to fathom, an Earth that is the same size as the sun would have the same mass as the sun. This would not only put our life in danger, but also disturb the entire solar system. Just consider it. In any case, you would essentially lose the moon because the Earth is larger than the sun. The gravitational pull of a planet will be stronger though if it has more mass. The Earth's gravity would be 28 times stronger in this scenario than it is right now. Our solar system moves the way it does because the sun has such a large mass that other planets are pulled into its orbit by its gravitational pull. Now, 49% of the mass of our solar system would be shared between the sun and the planet. The sun and the earth would orbit one another in a binary system as a result, right?

How might the other planets' orbits be impacted by this new conflict? And would a considerably stronger gravitational pull result in a large increase in the number of asteroids striking Earth? There would be much more to worry about than just asteroids, though. Buildings and bridges would likely fall apart and collapse due to the increased gravitational pressure, and our satellites would likely crash to Earth as well. It's unlikely that anything else could support the additional weight; only dense trees that were low to the earth would survive. You would be a lot heavier and possibly unable to go about on foot! Consider this. It would feel as though you were 1,400 kg (nearly 3,100 lbs) heavier on an Earth the size of the sun if you were 50 kg (110 lbs) right now on Earth. The unpleasant twist is that time slows down as gravity increases. Therefore, even though you would live longer, it would probably be spent in bed suffering from aches and pains.

Fortunately, since the Earth will never be as large as the sun, we may escape this horror. In actuality, the size of our world is decreasing! We lose several hundred tons of mass per day due to leaks in our atmosphere. Therefore, take a few deep breaths and be happy that it's so simple! Playing with dimensions is not always a good idea, and bigger is not always better.

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