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So the sun is there and then "god/thor/zeus etc" reaches down and picks up the sun (ouch) and flings it inter intergalactic space
mate I actually did a talk on this at Redlands Astronomical Society.
Yes, it will take 8 min 20 sec for us to notice it is suddenly very dark
In addition, the sun's gravity is also gone. As a result we would cease to go around and around where the sun used to be and instead would just fly off into space at a tangent to where we were in our orbit about where the sun used to be. The effect of Jupiter on our speed and direction was something that I just did not bother to go very much into, other than to mention that Jupiter would now be the largest nearby source of gravity and as such would obviously have some degree of effect on our tangential direction.
Also, we would soon start to fell rather chilly.
Stuart
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