Our Earth experiences one or two such solar flares every day. The energy released from them is equal to millions of volcanic eruptions. But due to the magnetic field present around the Earth, this energy is not able to harm the Earth even a bit. But recently, according to NASA, the strongest solar flare ever is going to hit the Earth in 2025. So SUN Will Destroy : The Earth in 2025 ? Let’s know about it.
SUN Will Destroy : The Earth in 2025 ?
What will happen to the Earth when the strongest solar flare hits ?
According to NASA, a scene of devastation will begin, flames will spread everywhere. And the Earth will once again become a hot ball of fire. This solar flare will be so strong that the energy released from it will be as much as the energy formed after the explosion of billions of nuclear bombs.
And at that time the magnetic field will not be able to protect us. The Sun is Destroying the Earth But on a special note, a similar explosion has already happened on Earth about 163 years ago.
The year was 1859 September 1st 11:18 am British Astronomer, Richard Carrington was observing various activities happening in the Sun. During that observation, suddenly such an intense light flashed in his telescope that he stopped seeing everything for 5 minutes.
They thought that maybe a comet had flown by. And that is why they ignored that flash and did not pay much attention to it. But this mistake of theirs had put the whole world in danger.
Actually, the light captured in his telescope was not any ordinary light. Rather, it was a plasma bomb emitted from the Sun. That is, the strongest solar flare which had already moved towards the Earth at the speed of millions of kilometers per second.
The very next day, on 2 September 1859, as this flare hit the Earth’s magnetic field, only beautiful lights started appearing all around. It was as if the sky was filled with different colors. But these beautiful lights were like the calm before the storm.
Their brightness was so high that the night itself looked like day. Even the gold miners of America started mining that night thinking it to be day. And then gradually, as soon as the charged particles present in the solar flare entered the upper atmosphere of the Earth, all the electrical appliances, light poles, electric transformers and towers started catching fire.
All companies and telegraph systems shut down. Due to the sudden flow of high voltage current in electrical devices, people started receiving severe shocks in large numbers, resulting in the death of thousands of people.
More than 30,000 people lost their lives due to lack of electricity in hospitals. In fact, after some time, the current flow became so high that in many places, electrical appliances started working automatically even without electricity despite not being plugged in.
And gradually the destruction increased in this way and the world was covered in darkness. This damage was caused by that solar flare. That was just a trailer. The storm that came at that time was not that strong. And the technology of that time was also not that strong.
In fact, electricity was just invented in 1800. But if we talk about the present, 87% of the world runs on electricity. Everything from small gadgets to big machines runs on electricity.
And on top of this, according to Nasa, the upcoming solar flare is going to be 100 times bigger than the one in 1859. If calculated in terms of energy, it will have a thousand times more impact, meaning the technology on which we are living.
The same technologies can potentially cause our death. Nasa has launched a satellite called Advanced Composition Explorer to study solar flares and radiation coming from the Sun. But as soon as that satellite detects the solar flare and sends that information to us, we will have only 30 minutes to save the Earth.
And saving the entire Earth from this destruction in such a short time would be next to impossible because as per its speed calculations, this solar flare is going to hit the Earth at a minimum speed of 48 crore 28 lakh kilometers per second.
How high is the speed of normal flares that occur every day? Now how is this happening ?
To understand this, we will have to understand a little about the reactions and movements taking place in the core of the Sun.
The core of the Sun in which nuclear fusion reactions keep happening continuously. And because of this, charged particles also keep moving continuously. What does flow of charged particles mean? Electric current and presence of electric current is equal to magnetic field, simple physics.
For some time in the beginning, the magnetic field lines of the Sun also travel from North to South. But due to the intense gravity of the Sun, these magnetic lines get tangled and stretched within themselves. And create a knot. Now these knots trap the matter inside them and create black patches. Which we call sun spots in scientific language.
Basically, it can be captured using a telescope. What happens normally is that after the entrapped matter cools down and condenses, it converts into a plasma cloud. And the plasma falls on the surface of the Sun in the form of rain.
But sometimes, due to some disturbances, some part of the plasma gets separated from the Sun’s magnetic field. And at that time, the sun spot fires the magnetized plasma cloud into the solar system at the speed of light, like a bullet fired from a gun.
And this happens only when the Sun’s magnetic field reorganizes itself every 11 years and changes its polarity. This means that these solar flares are thrown into the solar system every 11 years.
But because Earth is the only habitable planet in the solar system. And that is why its impact is more visible on us. The last time these flares hit was in the year 2014 and now after 11 years these flares are going to hit once again in 2025. And now if this solar flare hits the Earth, then we can have serious loss here.
Because as soon as this flare moves towards the Earth, the first thing. It will encounter is the Earth’s magnetic field, along with that, the charged particles present in the flare in the storm will collide with the satellites orbiting around the. Earth at high speed and damage all the satellites, due to which it will seem as if satellites will start raining on the Earth, whereas normally even a small piece of the satellite falls on the Earth.
So the energy released from it can destroy Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan together. It is so capable. Here I am talking about 5,500 satellites and also millions of DBs which are orbiting around the Earth.
We are getting to know about it. It means literally there can be a rain of meteors. Now you can understand its consequences. Let us assume that we are saved from it or we avoid it in some way. So the high voltage current formed in this geo magnetic storm will burn all the small and big electrical appliances.
Now if there are no transmission towers, this is obvious. There will be an electricity outage. And the first impact of this electricity outage will be the transportation on public transport and lifts will come to a complete halt. In fact, 325 million people travel every day.
And all this travelling and transportation will come to a halt. Imagine how many emergency services will be affected. But one very stupid scenario should not be forgotten. But people can get trapped in lifts.
And you can also die of suffocation. We all have private vehicles. But you will not want to travel even if you want to. The situation will be such that traffic signals everywhere will stop working. Due to which there will be traffic jams everywhere.
Emergency services will not be available to provide relief to panic cases. There will not even be electricity in hospitals. And those who are already admitted in hospitals and are on ventilators will also not be able to survive.
The Northern Gird, which is the highest voltage electricity transmission network that provides electricity to seven states, was shut down for 13 to 14 hours. Then 12.2% of the patients in the hospitals died immediately. But the outage of 2025 could take more than a full month.
And this will cause the biggest loss to the overall world GDP as electricity is used for every work in the world. Now if I talk only about the top five countries, then the total GDP of those countries today is Rs. 48 crores but we are talking about only five countries.
Just think how much loss will happen in the entire GDP. But we will face it only when we are alive. Because simultaneously the effect of these radiations coming from the Sun will start showing on the living creatures of the earth as well. Due to these radiations, diseases like skin cancer will start occurring.
But at the same time the immune system will also start deteriorating. Now if the immune system starts getting weak, it means that the human body will start becoming a home for bacteria and viruses. It will become more prone which will make people vulnerable to diseases one by one.
And if there are no emergency services available, this can turn into a major disastrous event. But will this really happen? Because in fact, similar strong events in history had revealed many secrets of the world instead of causing devastation.
The amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere suddenly increased due to the solar flare explosion that occurred in 774. What actually happens is that cosmic rays break apart the neutrons of the storms present in the Earth’s atmosphere.
And then these neutrons combine with nitrogen atoms and convert into carbon 14. After that these atoms combine with oxygen and produce carbon dioxide. And by absorbing this carbon dioxide, plants are able to do photosynthesis.
Scientists even say that if the amount of carbon 14 had not increased, then plants, micro-organisms living on them, humans, animals and sea creatures would never have evolved. This means that we can also say that solar flares have been helping us in the evolution of the Earth.
This information was written after doing some research. Do you think that scientists will invent a way through which we can avoid this solar flare. Or will it create a massive destruction? Write your opinion in the comment section. And we hope you have learned something new. Read More