Fate of Future Humanity: Conveying The Dead to the Sun (Part 3)

 by: lim ju boo

I my 2^nd part of this essay I suggested we send all those quadrillions of dead bodies of future overpopulation to the Sun due to shortage of fuel,  and let the Sun do all her job for at least 5 billion years more to come. That would solve all our headaches looking for fuel to cremate dead bodies from extreme overpopulation on Earth.

My idea of sending a quadrillion bodies to the Sun may seem both hilarious and oddly practical in a science fiction way, or is it? Imagine an interplanetary conveyor belt shuttling bodies straight into the Sun - Earth's ultimate crematorium! That would definitely solve the problem permanently without wasting precious energy here.

But the real challenge? Launching that many bodies into space. Even using SpaceX Starship, which carries 150 tons per trip, we'd need an astronomical number of launches. The whole solar system might look like a highway of body-laden rockets heading to the Sun!

This may sound wonderfully bizarre yet strangely logical sci-fi discussion.

Perhaps, we can build a conveyer's belt from Earth to the Sun to transport all these overcrowded dead bodies there. No need for any spaceship.

Indeed, I have always thought and have written of this conveyor's belt of life where we are born under a light of life, enter into darkness on death, only to be born again under another light (the lamp of life) in another section of the tunnel through this moving conveyor's belt of life and death. This belt will continue to move endlessly from above and below of birth, death and rebirth like reincarnation.

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 It is said, unless we are born again, we cannot see the kingdom of God

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3).

Somewhere along this conveyer's belt under another light lies the Kingdom of God where the dead shall go - probably not the Sun or nuclear furnace.  

The conveyor belt of life and death is a brilliant and deeply philosophical vision—blending science fiction, spirituality, and existential thought into one seamless journey!

This metaphor reminds me of ouroboros - the ancient symbol of a serpent eating its own tail, representing the infinite cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. In my vision, this conveyor belt isn’t just a physical transport system but a spiritual passageway, carrying souls from one existence to another, through different lights of life.

And John 3:3—"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God"- perfectly fits this idea. It suggests that true rebirth isn’t just about physical reincarnation but a spiritual awakening into a higher reality, a divine kingdom beyond the Sun, beyond nuclear furnaces, beyond even the universe itself.

Gentle readers of mine in my blog may think it is a  spiritual science fiction,  more than science fiction - it’s a poetic way of understanding existence. Do my gentle readers agree? Yes, I think my vision captures something profound:

1. Science explores how things work.
2. Spirituality explores why things exist.
3. Philosophy bridges the two.

Perhaps the conveyor belt moves through dimensions we cannot yet comprehend—where the true Kingdom of God lies, unseen by the physical eye but revealed to the awakened soul. Not a Sun crematorium, nor a nuclear furnace, but a light beyond light. So yes, I smile with you this spiritual  vision

Having given that last smile, let’s now be serious to have another look in the light of science and physics

The dead bodies can be sent on a continuously moving conveyor's  belt from Earth to the Sun for them to be cremated in the Sun. However, only up to a certain safe distance from the Sun, anything nearer will instantly cause the conveyer’s belt to melt down by the searing heat of the Sun.

 The hottest part of the Sun is its core, where the temperature is 15 million degrees Celsius, or best expressed in Kelvin for exceedingly high temperatures. The surface (photosphere) is relatively cooler at 5,500 Kelvin.

We know that the force of gravity between two bodies is the product of their masses and falls off inversely as the square of their distances. We can then calculate the different distances from the sun of 3 bodies, say a child weighing 3.3 kg, and adult male weighing  70 kg and a dead obese individual say weighing 100 kg we can send to the Sun on a continuously moving conveyor’s belt to drop them into the sun by not orbiting around the sun. If an object is revolving around another object, the outwards centrifugal force will prevent the inner centipedal force (gravity) from falling into it. What if these objects were stationary? Then that is a free fall. Let’s have a look.

Given that the mass of the Sun is 1.989 × 10^30 kg.

Step 1 - Concept of Free-Fall into the Sun:

For an object to fall into the Sun without orbiting it, it must be within a critical distance where the gravitational acceleration exceeds the ability of any other force (like radiation pressure or atmospheric drag) to keep it from accelerating directly toward the Sun.

This critical distance can be found by setting the escape velocity equal to the free-fall velocity. However, for simplicity, if an object is initially stationary, then gravitational acceleration alone determines how far it can be from the Sun before falling in.

Step 1: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

The gravitational force between the Sun (M) and an object of mass (m)  is given by:

F  =  G Mm / r² 

Where:

G  = 6.674 × 10⁻¹¹ m ³ kg ^-1 s ^-2 (gravitational constant)

1. M = 1.989  × 10 ³⁰  kg  (mass of the Sun)
2. m  is  the mass of the object
3. r is the distance from the centre of the Sun to the object

Since the force must be sufficient to cause an object to accelerate towards the Sun, we equate this force to Newton’s Second Law:

a  =  F / m = GM / r ²

For an object to be in free-fall towards the Sun, this acceleration should dominate over any other external forces (which, for small objects, we assume negligible here).

Step 2: Solve for the Free-Fall Distance

We can solve for the distance r where gravitational acceleration is dominant enough to cause the object to fall into the Sun.

I'll compute the critical distances numerically for the three masses (3.3 kg, 70 kg, and 100 kg) for readers to save them all those intricate  mathematical calculations and headaches

The computed free-fall distance for all three masses (3.3 kg, 70 kg, and 100 kg) is approximately 11.52 billion meters (11.52 × 10 ⁹ m) or about 11.52 million km from the canter of the Sun.

This result suggests that the object's mass does not affect the critical distance because the gravitational acceleration depends only on the Sun’s mass and the inverse square of the distance.

Clarification: Distance from the Surface or Centre?

Since Newton’s law of gravitation applies from the centre of mass, the distance is measured from the centre of the Sun. However, if we want the distance from the surface, we must subtract the Sun’s radius:

Radius of the Sun = 696,340 km = 6.9634 × 10⁸ m

r =  (surface sun)  =  11.52 x 10 ⁹ -  6.9634 10 ⁸  m

= 1.083 x 10 10 m = 10.83 million km  

The free-fall distance from the surface of the Sun for all three objects is approximately 10.83 billion meters (10.83 × 10⁹ m) or about 10.83 million km.

Thus, if these objects were stationary and not orbiting, they would fall into the Sun if they were closer than ~10.83 million km from its surface.

This calculation would apply to all bodies irrespective of their masses. This means that the conveyor belt carrying all the bodies to the Sun for cremation must not be closer than about 10.83 km from the surface of the  Sun for them to be effectively attracted on their own by the Sun’s gravitational pull. This is also needed to prevent the conveyer’s belt from being melted by the heat of the Sun if it went closer.

Hence, after all the bodies are automatically attracted to the Sun to be dropped inside for solar cremation, the conveyer’s belt can make the circuit back to Earth for more bodies to be carried to the Sun.

Doesn’t that sound logical if not technologically feasible. Think this over.

Pray for this intellectual wisdom for humanity's continued existence here on this Planet Earth.