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Originally Posted by that_guy
I heard in a documentary where it said that gravity travels at the speed of light... so "IF" the sun goes SN, would we be flung out of the way before the blast reaches??
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Assuming the Sun went SN (which it won't due to the small solar mass), the Earth would still be burnt to a crisp by gamma and X-ray radiation which are travelling at c.
Also overcoming the Earth's orbital moment of inertia would delay the Earth's "escape".
Steven