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- if the sun vanishes do you experience loss of gravity first or detect the photons emitted by it before vanishing first?
suppose suddenly the sun disappears at a time t. at this arbitrary time t, the Earth should fling off tangentially to the point in its orbit at time t as there is no centripetal force keeping it in orbit.
we know light takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth.
so will humans on Earth experience being flung off out of orbit first of will the detect the last photons emitted from the sun before disappearing at time t.
if the humans on Earth experience the Earth being flung before detecting the photons hasn't information been transferred faster than the speed of light.
is there something fundamentally wrong with this question because I really can't find an answer.
we know light takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth.
so will humans on Earth experience being flung off out of orbit first of will the detect the last photons emitted from the sun before disappearing at time t.
if the humans on Earth experience the Earth being flung before detecting the photons hasn't information been transferred faster than the speed of light.
is there something fundamentally wrong with this question because I really can't find an answer.