Quickly, before the people of Adana come: is it possible to extinguish the sun by pouring water?

Every year when summer comes, Surely someone in Adana would fire a gun at Güneş, right? It’s impossible to disagree because we entered those temperatures…

How about instead of a gun? What if water were poured on the sun? Do you think it would really work?

The sun is not really fire as we know it. The energy comes from nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion under extreme pressure It is the transformation of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. This process takes place in the core of the sun, under temperatures of 15 million degrees and a pressure of 333,000 Earths.

Hydrogen atoms combine in these extreme conditions to form helium. In this process It emits neutrinos, positrons and gamma rays. The mass of the helium formed is less than the total mass of the combined hydrogen atoms, and the lost mass is released as pure solar energy.

Let’s say we found a water source the size of the sun and directed this water to the sun, what would happen?

In the cold of space, water It is very likely that it will turn into a huge ice ball, but Let’s say we’re still pushing it toward the sun. What would happen if we pushed this ice ball towards the sun?

This, It would evaporate as it approached the sun’s atmosphere. However, let’s assume that we have brought the evaporated water to the core of the sun.

In this case, water vapor would decompose into hydrogen and oxygen. Since the main fuel for nuclear fusion is hydrogen, Instead of putting out the sun, we would have provided it with more fuel! Congratulations, the people of Adana are even angrier now…

If we could throw water at the sun at a speed close to the speed of light, we could destroy the sun’s gravitational balance and break it apart.

But still the sun We are completely extinguished It didn’t mean we were just going to destroy it.

In such a scenario, the Sun’s gravity would disappear and the planets would become scattered in space. so all life would freeze to death. In short, we can call it theoretically interesting, but practically suicide.

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