• Question: if you could walk on the sun and you tried to jump, would the force of it keep you on the sun?

    Asked by Wokdabrij TGS to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:


      @Wokdabrij TGS Well for a start if you tried to walk on the sun you would burn up immediately as the surface is about 6000 degrees. Then, lets say you had a special heat suit, you would fall through the sun as it is just a bunch of gases burning. The gravity on the surface of the sun is nearly three times our Earth’s so yes, you would descend very very rapidly.

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 15 Jun 2015:


      It turns out that a friend of mine had done this math – assuming that you could stand on the surface, and were immune to heat, and on earth, you could jump half a meter in the air, he worked out that for the sun you’d only be able to jump 2 cm. So you woudn’t be going anywhere by jumping!

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