What If Earth Orbited the Sun at the Speed of Light?

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Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up! Let’s turn Earth into a planet-sized spaceship and crank it up to light speed. What would happen to Earth if it started orbiting so fast? And what would it be like to experience this all from down on the ground?
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00:00 What If Earth Orbited the Sun at the Speed of Light?
02:05 How fast does Earth currently orbit the Sun?
02:35 What would happen if Earth's orbital velocity increased?
04:53 Where would we get enough energy to speed the whole planet up?
06:03 What's the worst that could happen?
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@WarriorPP Жыл бұрын

This man deserves an award 👍🏻

@ALittleMoreMe Жыл бұрын

But that's a story for another "What If..."

@Usa_Ball176 Жыл бұрын

I agree prana

@xxthemythicalproxx8452 Жыл бұрын

It’s not prana it’s Pranav

@jhiterkligz2905 Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@misterbig9025 Жыл бұрын

KZfaq gold button!

@gideon_kang1 Жыл бұрын

once again, the legend cameraman deserves applause for going into space and simultaneously teleporting while recording to give us this beautiful visualizer

@ShroguBTW Жыл бұрын

The jokes getting old

@Goddessoftime442 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂 That joke never gets old for me anyway

@SpringThingIGuess Жыл бұрын

Old joke

@Goddessoftime442 Жыл бұрын

@@SpringThingIGuess It most certainly is an old joke but that doesn't mean you don't have to laugh at it I bet you any money that there's an old joke in your head that you still laugh about today

@Goddessoftime442 Жыл бұрын

@Prussian Soldier But again, you're right it is an old joke

@TSierra Жыл бұрын

What If keeps uploading great videos, good job!

@WhatIfScienceShow Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support. We appreciate it.

@poseidon__93 Жыл бұрын

@@arunkapil01 lol

@johnandriemadrona5736 Жыл бұрын

Y'all being mean

@nulfozerc259 4 ай бұрын

How could you agree with a speculation? ..

@macwelch8599 Жыл бұрын

What if Earth was placed, in terms of distance in space, approximately 5 inches closer to the Sun from where it is now? Would the polar ice caps melt?

@ChineduOpara Жыл бұрын

5 inches? No change. 5 meters. Slight change, snowballing over hundreds of years. 5 kilometers? Hmmm we'd start having some problems fairly quickly... climate chaos within our lifetimes, complete change in human lifestyles within 1 generation.

@macwelch8599 Жыл бұрын

@@ChineduOpara what would happen at 5 meters? Warmer temperatures?

@ChineduOpara Жыл бұрын

@@macwelch8599 Yup.

@kozmosz Жыл бұрын

👍

@tkuvma4372 Жыл бұрын

WTF!, Bro, earth's Apoapsis is 152M kilometres, while our closest point to the sun is about 147M kilometres, and we can barely feel it!, You still speak in inches?!! 💀

@mrjoemarc Жыл бұрын

Before The Earth do the rotation with speed of light, we all died already.

@SlashinatorZ Жыл бұрын

Made in Heaven kinda displays how that would be

@Dreidelium Жыл бұрын

Ok.

@nulfozerc259 4 ай бұрын

From Cult's channel? Spreading baseless lies..make your kids just accept all NASA lies?

@grizzleyfosho4964 Жыл бұрын

The universe is just so interesting 😩 the way everything works and the laws of physics.

@himyeager Жыл бұрын

mhm

@stratisapostolou6284 Жыл бұрын

The laws of our creator not physics.👼

@sumitdubey5450 Жыл бұрын

Very nice knowledge

@lacressaschimmerhorn616 Жыл бұрын

For something that can't happen

@nulfozerc259 4 ай бұрын

Knowledge? Product of ..computer generated images?...

@Momin4 7 ай бұрын

What if this channel didn't exist

@TeW33zy Ай бұрын

Wt if I slapped you for saying a joke that was lame asf?

@EnokeBanini Ай бұрын

we wouldn't see your comment

@chargedgamerz5453 7 күн бұрын

Means what if what if don't exists 😂😂

@maxgamercool7 Жыл бұрын

Love your creative videos man, they really strike my curiosity of what’s out there.👍

@stratisapostolou6284 Жыл бұрын

The same what's in your head space and vacuum. Brainless. 🤯😷👍

@salwasaad3712 11 ай бұрын

الشمس والقمر بحسبان والنجم والشجر يسجدان والسماء رفعها و وضع الميزان ألا تطغوا في الميزان

@nulfozerc259 4 ай бұрын

Intertained by lie?

@sburton015 Жыл бұрын

Or what if the orbit stayed the same but if we slowed down Earth's rotation a little to where everyone would have more time each day than just 24 hours. Like if the rotation slowed down to where there were 48 hours each day and it was rotating half speed? Maybe that could make our lives easier who knows.

@WhatIfScienceShow Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@sburton015 Жыл бұрын

@@WhatIfScienceShow you welcome. As it turns out that the Earth's rotation is slowing down and days are getting longer. However we would still have to wait another 200 million years before our days will be 25 hours long. Then about another billion years for our days to be 29 hours long.

@mikemyght Жыл бұрын

If earth slowed down rotation, the only thing that will change is calendar

@stratisapostolou6284 Жыл бұрын

Listen snozolla the earth is slowly being pulled of its course and slowing. That explains global climate. It is a natural phenomenon. What more is there but your junk science. It's a reality. Nothing is permanent. 😁👍

@stratisapostolou6284 Жыл бұрын

@@sburton015 the earth orbit is slowing and pulling away. Its natural.

@OptimusWall Жыл бұрын

Y'all have sparked my interest in science. Thanks!

@daniel.sandberg.5298 Жыл бұрын

I just realised that stars are living creatures with dedication, just not with our criteria of life.

@arslaanpasha3334 Жыл бұрын

agreed

@WarriorPP Жыл бұрын

Another day, Another information Thanks dude 🥰

@nulfozerc259 4 ай бұрын

From a lie? ..a pure lie? ..you call an information?

@fahimredwan Жыл бұрын

Love what if videos❤❤❤

@mysterious6640 Жыл бұрын

What is is the best scientist i've heard, you teached me space, thank you my man!

@WhatIfScienceShow Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support!

@thecoolerpooh5861 Жыл бұрын

I imagine there'd just be a ring of light in the sky because of the speed

@justsomeerengoofyface Жыл бұрын

Meido in Hebun

@VonDaRealist Жыл бұрын

Seriously love this channel

@mannyblackstar Жыл бұрын

Camera man never dies. His lenged would be told for generations to come. Thank you ❤

@PataFiniuss2023 Жыл бұрын

So, I guess this is related to Kepler's 3rd Law. Which states that: the squares of the orbital periods of the planets are directly proportional to the cubes of the semi-major axes of their orbits.

@stratisapostolou6284 Жыл бұрын

What the hell are you talking about.🤪

@17milesaway 9 ай бұрын

English please

@abhirupkundu2778 4 ай бұрын

averagedumb ass kid who knows nothing about science ez@@stratisapostolou6284

@stibiumowl Жыл бұрын

4:18 You don't need to break physics law. You just said, you turned erath into space ship. So it has light-fast-speed-engines. Just atach more engines for manouvering/steering wheel and stuff to keep erth close to sun. No problem with enough computing power. And btw thanks for making finaly cear you knbow the infinite mass problem, so all haters need to shut up. But why you don't just take 99,99% speed of light? Almost all effects would be the same.

@kidlazer Жыл бұрын

This guy just made my day:)

@shineolivia78 Жыл бұрын

This man deserves to be in NASA

@HI-ej8rl Жыл бұрын

Always enjoying What if videos! ❣️

@scientificspell1 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Just a small correction, according to the doppler effect the frequency is reduced rather than increased unless and until the observer is moving towards the star which also happens so technically not only light will be shifted to x-rays, but also infrared. Also another effect would be more dark matter detections

@sprigtlytech5395 Жыл бұрын

You gotta learn more buddy!

@sayandutta3602 11 ай бұрын

This guy really teaches us to make questions

@hiyori713 Жыл бұрын

nice vid bro.

@IyamSoRaya Жыл бұрын

The thumbnail looking kinda shaky 🤣 my mind is completely in the gutter. And I'm proud. 🙃

@sharmisthachanda7315 Жыл бұрын

Let's praise him for his hard work to give knowledge

@Titanic-wo6bq Жыл бұрын

I was wondering... what would happen if by some freak accident the earth began to shrink. That would make for an interesting video I think. The other direction could be explored with the earth growing too.

@WarriorPP Жыл бұрын

This man is the modern Newton 😂🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🥳🥳🥳

@raghunandanbr6975 Жыл бұрын

WOW !

@stellarstargazer3982 Жыл бұрын

What If Mars, Mercury and Venus orbited The Sun at light speed

@kozmosz Жыл бұрын

great video🥳

@yassineyouneschronicles4995 7 ай бұрын

i havnt watched you in so long

@somethingsomething7993 Жыл бұрын

I always watch these videos at 1.5 speed, otherwise they’re painfully slow

@EMIST3R Жыл бұрын

This award deserves a man! 👍🏻

@riceball4923 Жыл бұрын

im addicted to watching these lol

@Sanjay64016 Жыл бұрын

It proves that this man experiences 1lakh for this video. Thanks for giving us information.he deserves an award

@emilaviles6703 Жыл бұрын

Logic ; sun was big size ball basket, while size earth monnggo seed , distance so far when earth rotation, are speed of light,why ? Because bigger sun and distance far from earth why Speed of light earth? Solution calculate line orbit

@AlexLexusOfficial 7 ай бұрын

"What if the earth orbitted at the speed of light?" "How fast would we go?"

@isatherebel1520 Жыл бұрын

Imagine that... being born and getting old reaching death before even figuring out that your own self was even alive

@AlbertaGamer 3 ай бұрын

So many questions that I asked my exasperated parents when I was a little kid are being answered on this channel.

@ChoiSeongYT Жыл бұрын

#1 What If!! ❤️

@painthuret Жыл бұрын

I dont think earth would be able to maintain its spherical shape at that speed and I also think that orbiting the sun at such a speed would start capturing its atmosphere just like a black hole. The whole thing might just create a black hole if the mass at that velocity becomes infinite

@Trenton-CDT Жыл бұрын

If earth orbits the speed of light then that would be great bc when u have school when it gets afternoon that fast u can leave school early

@Nevermin28 Жыл бұрын

This man know all my 3am thoughts

@blu9371 Жыл бұрын

"Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the sun." No crap homie, every 60 seconds, a minute passes.

@TheReichtangle156 Жыл бұрын

This guy needs AN OSCAR

@Yo_niggaItsu Жыл бұрын

First of all:we gaij the speed of light 2:the sun becomes colder because of the aceleration of the earth 3:we would get colder every second 4:after 3 minutes the suns flames to hest us up well.becomes....yknow...its gone 5:if we still move at the speed of light even without the energy of the sun well...all the water first of all flies to the air and freezez. 6:no water=no life It would take us about 5-6 days before we die...or 7..or 8...we dont know just yet because if hasnt happened yet..

@CherretTheFerret Жыл бұрын

imagine earth was the spaceship we would use to escape the red giant phase

@wonkydude1 Жыл бұрын

Then it wouldn’t be orbiting, it would be racing around it in circles. There’s a difference.

@DOGDAYGAMING382 4 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that be that annoying friend who turns the light on and off all the time?

@rk00321 Жыл бұрын

I am from India your videos are amazing and give knowledges beautiful explanation give more and more

@chriscutress1702 Жыл бұрын

An interesting "think exercise".

@planetarystargazer Жыл бұрын

What If Mars, Mercury and Venus were twice as far away from The Sun

@sandeepsuresh2232 Жыл бұрын

Earth colliding with Jupiter should be a story for another what if.

@qutubuddinsyedkhaja9385 Жыл бұрын

Estimated weather at 1:18 Weather : Sunny Temp: 21°C Pressure: 1025 hPa Chance of rain: 20% Feels like: 19.5°C Visibility: 40+ kilometres Wind: 15 km/h Gust: 24 km/h

@ExternalScientificCorporation 11 ай бұрын

breh, we did not need this information

@Embraer1755 10 ай бұрын

@@ExternalScientificCorporationdon't be mean, to him

@richardson.1424 Жыл бұрын

What If idea: What If We Saw What The Earth Looked Like As It Moved In A Year Through Space FROM SPACE...

@yourmomshouse9935 Жыл бұрын

So how long is the orbital period at that speed, would be good for starters.

@arthurzettel6618 4 ай бұрын

Imagining the Earth traveling at 186,000 miles per second is mind-boggling.

@adityabakshi6979 Жыл бұрын

The earth with with halo trail in the thumbnail looks funny 🙃

@ilhamismail06 Жыл бұрын

what if someone got a car that has a speed of light

@noelbenjr2741 Жыл бұрын

The thumbnail cannot be unseen after seeing the way the earth is located

@Singhka8 Жыл бұрын

Great video, could anyone plz tell me what song is playing in the background at at 3:14

@MadManTonio Жыл бұрын

I haven’t even watched the video, but I’m assuming we’d all look like Peter in that one episode

@swaroopgowdaartdrawing Жыл бұрын

Awesome....

@vojtechmalina5698 7 ай бұрын

6:37 The spetrum should shift to xray on one side of the Earth and to infrared on the other side, right? And we should be able to see the sun normally.

@ScratchKing777 Жыл бұрын

Thus would be a great movie

@scorpion-man28 Жыл бұрын

I wonder what it would be like if the universe was born in ice instead of fire!

@rohitc08 Жыл бұрын

If this could happen then a year would be much shorter than a day. One orbit around sun would take just under 1 hr.

@sebastianramirez1516 Жыл бұрын

The end without any explanation

@unprovengravity Жыл бұрын

Imagine thinking that an airplane flips completely upside down prior to landing in the southern hemisphere 😆

@Techzd1 Жыл бұрын

This man is either the smartest person on earth or is about to make Google run out of search results💀

@gediminaspocevicius2809 Жыл бұрын

Maybe there are things that move faster than light, but we cant see them cuz the light cant catch up

@Morristown337 7 ай бұрын

What if our sun was going slightly slower then the speed of light (just barely), and someone turned on a light switch here on Earth?

@myleswelnetz6700 Жыл бұрын

Gotta spin fast!

@its_forzy Жыл бұрын

but wait, the faster something orbits, the closer it will be to the object is orbiting.

@sheluvhate Жыл бұрын

They made y’all believe we are a spinning ball traveling through space at 220 kilometers every second circulating around the sun😭 and also “gravity” is the force holding everything together. Remarkable how impressionable humans are.

@schattizuvivene4070 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the music artist? Background tunes are really dope :)

@FebruaryHas30Days Жыл бұрын

To be exact, light travels at exactly 299,792,458 meters per second.

@Durex653 Жыл бұрын

Whats crazy to me back in the days all the inventors had to had eurekas or something just to understand space, like sun, moon, now a 5 year old can come to youtube know more about space than DaVinci or anyone else back in the middle ages lol

@alvinu4181 Жыл бұрын

If Earth orbited the Sun at a speed of light, years of Earth would become shorter.

@Mr_Turab Жыл бұрын

Hey what if do a video on what if another system collides with us.

@thenameisgineej07 Жыл бұрын

What if our earth suddenly teleport to another galaxy like Andromeda

@Orvilleismybestfriend Жыл бұрын

top 3 people who deserves an oscar 1#

@commenter3698 6 ай бұрын

wannna know whats as fast as the speed of light *a sped up video of a train driving*

@unprovengravity Жыл бұрын

Imagine thinking that, "gravity" fluctuates between all living and non living things on earth 😆

@Brick2buddies Жыл бұрын

it would not take infinite energy to move something with infinite mass if there is nothing to slow it down. if there is no force against it a single nutant will accelerate an object no matter how heavy because if nothing slows it down it will continue to move at the speed of light and if a single nutant will add force to the object it will speed up.

@TheOrigamiGenius Жыл бұрын

So basically we would all die

@blackterminal Жыл бұрын

Potentially we would be going faster in time?

@Airborne_Phoenix Жыл бұрын

The speed of darkness is faster than the speed of light, because before light gets there, darkness has already been there and moving on

@Nubewastaken Жыл бұрын

Earth bouta go At The Speed of Light

@manavmakkar8044 Жыл бұрын

Earth's rotation around sun depends upon the sun's revolution (sun also have 2 movements)

@unprovengravity Жыл бұрын

Imagine thinking that the THEORY of gravity holds all ocean water onto the 1k MPH spinning earth 😆

@zeusfitter007 Жыл бұрын

Cornelius Would Be Proud.🙌🏻

@unprovengravity Жыл бұрын

Imagine thinking that earth spins at over 1k MPH 😆

@jasontatel1054 Жыл бұрын

What if the ozone layer is super thick?

@user-ik4br3nk2w 9 ай бұрын

I can't believe i survived 50 trips around the sun😳

@Grimmre Жыл бұрын

He has achieved “Heaven“

@Beautiful_nature216 Жыл бұрын

What if there would no World 🌎 No human No animals No plants 🌱 No life❤ So it’s one ☝️ minute meet you again

@cesarvictorino8624 Жыл бұрын

What if the Middle East didn’t exist?

@krishnavcharingia Жыл бұрын

What if the West didn't exist

@ChineduOpara Жыл бұрын

Well then we'd have another war-torn region called something else. Probably West Africa or North/Northeast part of South America