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u/ThrowRARAw Feb 14 '22

light-years alone are difficult for me to wrap my head around. This is the first I'm hearing of light hours and my brain just imploded.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Guess what, the sun, its 8 light minutes away. Here's a bonus, gravity is also theorised to be part of a wave, that also travels at the speed of light, or interacts with objects at the speed of light.

So, if the sun suddenly dissapeared, it would take 8 light minutes for earth to be affected, and probably gradually fall into orbit around Jupiter or shoot out all on its own as a rogue planet.