Can it be said that in the end everyone and everything becomes part of the sun?
When sun swallows Earth some 7 billion years from now, then everyone and everything on Earth becomes part of Sun. Is that the ultimate end?
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John P say: Yes, but - what does the Sun then become?
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Ronald 7 say: Well, I will have moved by then
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John say: I believe there's a swallow, and then the belch is the true end.
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goring say: The Biblical record indicates that there will be a new haven and Earth.
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Donut Tim say: Yes, it can be said. Anything can be said.
I suspect that before our Sun reaches its full red giant size, it would have vaporized the Earth and swept the vapor out of the solar system with solar winds.
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daniel g say: In a sense, the sun will slowly expand enveloping the earth but by that point, everything will have long since been burned away.
By that time, humans would likely do a 'Noa's arc' thing to another habitable planet in the galaxy.
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Paula say: Yes that is true.
It will happen in about 5 billion years.
But not everyone will become part of the sun.
I plan to emigrate to Mars before that happens.
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Jeffrey K say: Yes, the sun will engulf the earth. But everything on earth, including us, came out of stars. Every atom of every element except hydrogen was made inside a star. So our atoms will be returning to where they began.
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YKhan say: Well, assuming that there aren't some of us who haven't moved out to the outer parts of the solar system, or even further by that point in time. Even moving the Mars will prevent us from being swallowed by the Sun.
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oldprof say: Heavens no. The big red giant that engulfs much of the solar system will eventually die out from the lack of fuel. Then what's left of the Sun will be a cold celestial body.
Had our Sun been roughly two to four times the size it is today, it would collapse as the red giant and become a super nova. But, alas, our Sun is too tiny for such a glorious ending. So it'll just become a cold rock.
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Steven say: There are plenty more stars for us to feed off. Getting to them will not be easy but a billion years is a long time. Humans will move to the "burbs" of Sol first. And then fusion power could take us where ever we need to go. The biggest threat to humans is greed and stupidity. It s like climate change. Some will see the future and deal with it, some won t.
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Phil say: True. This solar system will collapse due to gravity (the pull between heavenly masses), then eventually the galaxy, and then the whole universe (the Big Crunch theory). Everything will collapse back into a singularity and explode again in a Big Bang. It's only a theory (no one lives trillion of years to give a first-hand account), it's the cyclic nature of the universe.
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stephen say: What swallows the Sun? So in the END it would not be the Sun. It rather, depends on whose/what end you are speaking of. For us 'Earthlings' demise of SUN would be it.
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spot a say: Initially everything on earth will become part of the sun, but the the sun blows off outer layers in a nova explosion and these form a planetary nebula. Some of the atoms from earth will be blown off too.
Stars spend approximately a few thousand to 1 billion years as a red giant. Eventually, the helium in the core runs out and fusion stops. The star shrinks again until a new helium shell reaches the core. When the helium ignites, the outer layers of the star are blown off in huge clouds of gas and dust known as planetary nebulae. These shells are much larger and fainter than their parent stars.
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cosmo say: No, most of the outer layers of the Sun and the material making up the planets will be swept out into the interstellar medium in the form of a "planetary nebula", when the Sun contracts to a white dwarf.
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Sharon say: the date is more like 1.5 billion years, and it will be the end of Earth (and previously of Mercury and Venus), but no where near "everything"
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Bill-M say: Yes, that is true, and it is 4.5 Billion years not 7.
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PhotonX say: No, that cannot be said. Not even everything orbiting Sun is doomed to fall into it, not to mention the rest of the Universe. And humans have sent probes all the way out of the Solar System, so clearly they will never be part of the Sun.
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ReductioAdAstronomicus say: No, not the ultimate. Ask yourself: what then?
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RyguyMC say: The sun burns up fuel and makes it bigger, that's why we are colonizing arms so we could move there, since its getting too hot for our planet. It is not the ultimate end, we would just move planets.
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Acetek say: the Sun will expand into its red giant stag in about 4.5 billion years not 7 billion.
and there will be no one on this planet anyway as in less than 1 billion years the Sun will have heated up to the point were all life will be cooked out of existence. the oceans will be boiled away. if there is still life it will be underground. we as humans will have evolved to the point that we no longer even need human form.
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