A white dwarf is thousands of times denser than the material in the sun ( or the earth or any other "normal body for that matter). It passes through such material even more easily than a ball of iron would through the air. The only consequence for the white dwarf would be an increase in mass as it collects a bit from the sun on its way through. Here’s the cite if you are interested. ( and if you can get it to load, I can’t, but I have the hardcopy here at home.)
While the white dwarf would hardly notice it’s passage through the sun, the shockwave of it’s passing would raise the temperature of the sun enough to simultaneously ignite most of it’s hydrogen in a massive fusion explosion. The sun would undergo 5 billion years of fusion in a day, an blow itself apart, along with the solar system.
Er, I wasn’t able to read your cite, but I do know that while a white dwarf is many times denser than the average solar density, the core density of the sun is pretty high. I think if the WD went through the center, you’d see some interaction. No?
Apparently, the core of the sun is only about as dense as lead ( which is high considering it is moslty hydrogen gas). But even that’s not that high compared to white dwarf degenerate matter.
“Whereas the sunlike star is annihilated, the white dwarf, being 10 million times as dense, gets away with only a mild warming of its outermost layers. Except for an anomalously high surface abundance of nitrogen, the white dwarf should appear unchanged.”
The density difference is even higher than I previously stated. It would be like a cannon-ball flying through a partial vacuum.
From a picture caption: " In the aftermath of a collision between the sun and a white dwarf, the sun explodes as a giant thermonuclear bomb, leaving a gasseous nebula. A few percent of the sun’s mass collects in a disk around trhe white dwarf, which continues on it’s way. Earth survives, but the oceans and atmosphere boil away. No longer held by the gravity of a central star, the planets all fly off into interstellar space and wander lifelessly around the galaxy."
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[sub]Yes I know they didn’t actually destroy the sun in Dragonball, just the moon and a bunch of planets.[/sub]
All we have to do is start a vicious rumor that we’ve discovered the what exactly is the great question of life, the universe and everything and that we’ve also stored that question on the sun to be retrieved at some later date. And in about 50 years some ugly green men will come along in ugly yellow spaceships and take care of the problem for us.
The government already knows how to extinguish the sun. They even know how to do it on one side of the Earth. Govt. scientists work out of a clandestine lab disguised as a shrimp boat.
Despite proof published on the web, the govt is, as usual, totally silent on this awesome project.
Cooler! Baby! Good to see ya spreadin’ your wings a little. If your a fan of American Idol-- and I can’t imagine you aren’t-- there’s usually a thread going in Cafe Society on the most recent show.
Destroy the sun? The Globe of Hatred? The Ball of Malevolent Brilliance? The Orb of Evil? The Abomination of the Sky?
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