An evolution question I've often wondered about.

[highwaystar101]

Khuutra said:

highwaystar101 said:

I think you can be assured that if Earth entered the event horizon of a white hole, we would damn well know about it. Because white holes are an unproven hypothesis, we know nothing about their effects.

But by definition a white hole has to be something "huge", even if it's effects didn't destroy the solar system, it would certainly change it in some very noticeable way. A white hole would have to create some extreme forces.

I meant more like....

If Earth spent 6000 years getting 4 billion years of sunlight, wouldn't the entire surface of the planet basically catch fire? It's the time thing that bothers me, here.

No, because the time would be expanded in the same way for all matter and energy. Let's say time could theoretically be slowed down in this way without obliteration, then everything would slow down with it. Just imagine 6000 years of history as they are now, but millions of times slower. Imagine that the time was stretched if you like.

The mechanics of the solar system would be slowed down, the Earth and everything else would turn very slowly, but at a speed which is directly scaled down from the original speed. The light would too be altered, we wouldn't just be a sitting duck waiting for countless photons to bombard us at a normal rate form the sun like usual, we would still receive 6000 years worth of photons.

Everything would be just the same, but millions of times slower.

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What bothers me about the time is that if time was distorted to be slower then so would the geology. If Earth's time slowed down, then so would the mechanics, which means that today we would still essentially be a big ball of molten rock.