Can We Move the Sun? | Dead Planets Society Podcast

Earth and all the other planets in our solar system are being dragged on a joyride through the universe, as the Dead Planeteers attempt to move the sun.
How slowly would you have to move the sun for its gravity to hold onto the planets? Would any planets end up flinging out of orbit? And which planets can we afford to lose along the way?
To answer their many questions, Leah and Chelsea are joined by Jay Farihi, an astrophysicist at University College London.
A big hurdle they first have to overcome is how exactly to move the sun in the first place. Luckily, the team has a variety of whacky ideas, including black holes. From sun sails to graviton generators to popping the sun like a balloon, hear the team’s unconventional methods for getting the job done and discover where in the universe their final destination is. Pillars of creation anyone?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos - from punching a hole in a planet to unifying the asteroid belt - and subjects them to the laws of physics to see how they fare.
Your hosts are Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte.
If you have a cosmic object you’d like to figure out how to destroy, email the team at [e-mail]. It may just feature in a later episode.
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[@StaringCompetition]

Leah Crane one of the best voices in podcasting.

[@lyledal]

Kurzgesagt did a video on this a few years ago! "A Novel Concept by Which the Entire Solar System Could Become Mobile."

[@mudgetheexpendable]

Dr David Kipping of Cool Worlds has a video on "star lifting" that deals with using mass removed from the Sun.

[@imdawolfman2698]

Obviously, the simplest way to move the whole Solar System, including the Ort cloud if we like (and I think we should, in case we get thirsty) would be to put it into an inertailly uniform space-time bubble large enough. Then, create a super massive black hole at the right distance (close 'cause we're in a hurry) and in the direction we wanna go with a momentum in ballance with the mass of our traveling solar bubble. There you go, were on our way! 'What do you mean you have to go peepee? I told you to go befo...

[@EnneaIsInterested]

Time for someone to watch Isaac Arthur.

[@chrisleblanc581]

Umm, it’s already moving. Everything is always moving.

[@imdawolfman2698]

It all averages out so nothing is going nowhere.

[@quantumcat7673]

Those two person, supposedly intelligent, do not have a good alimentary hygiene. I wonder why they do not understand that it is their responsibility. Abusing food is not only very bad for your health but you show a bad example of a bad alimentary hygiene to kids and young minds. Please do your homework!!!

[@timothyjones3313]

Is the sun not moving already. It will end you can't stop this

[@prdamico]

What a waste of time, energy & oxygen.........this is what science has become ?

[@lyledal]

You must be so much fun at parties!

[@prdamico]

@@lyledal I prefer reality, maybe you should crawl back under that rock of ignorance.....

[@imdawolfman2698]

​​@@prdamicoIf people hadn't imagined what could be beyond the rock they lived under we would all still be living under that rock with people like you.