/sci/ - Science & Math

I thought it was this

Is Wikipedia a good source? I'd ask /b/, but I'd rather actually get an answer.

>mfw incredible amounts of energy is being blasted into space 24/7 but brainlets are too busy arguing over organic chemistry to notice

radiofag here. My friend is making an astronomy research paper for a contest. She's making it about the Sun in general and I've offered help. What I want is to record the Suns' radiation on my clubs set-up.

>What frequency and wave length should I use to "hear" the Sun?
>Do I need any special equipment?

Hello, /sci/.

Complete science neophyte here.

I was having a debate about the sun today with a coworker. He said he wished the sun would just disappear because it was blinding him at that moment. Anyway, our point of contention centered around what would happen to the Earth if the sun just instantaneously disappeared. If it just "flashed" or "zapped" or whatever out of existence.

My argument was this - that after the sun disappeared, the Earth would flash freeze immediately after the ~8 minutes it takes for solar radiation to reach us - that it would actually be like those flash freezing scenes in that shitty "Day After Tomorrow" movie.

His argument was that the earth's freezing would be delayed due to stored warmth in the oceans and in earth's atmosphere, that it would take up to a day for the Earth to freeze.

I'm pretty sure I'm right, but not 100% certain. I mean, it would be going from sun to deep space in an instant.

Which one of us is right?

>tl;dr - what would happen to the Earth if the sun just instantaneously disappeared?