Comment on Gottem. :)
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoAll of that will only happen after 8 minutes, see this comment.
Earth has a circular orbit because space-time is curved by the mass of the sun. (Think of a large bowling ball on a trampoline, you can make a small ball travel in circles around it, and if there would be no friction, it would go on indefinitely.) When the sun’s mass suddenly disappears (by pure magic, as this would violate many laws of physics), spacetime would flatten out, at the speed of light.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
What part of “I know gravity travels at the speed of light” do you not understand, to make you think you’re explaining something to me?
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
the fact that you don’t understand how the pull of gravity wouldn’t disappear immediately
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Lol. You’re a damned idiot. I’m not really sure you can “learn” basic reading comprehension, but maybe you’ll manage it someday.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
yes I am the idiot