303 | AMA | February 2025

2447.273 - 2466.55 Sean Carroll

So you hopefully will not be surprised to hear I have no idea how much closer the Earth would get to the sun if the sun was spinning half as fast as it currently does. I'm not even at all sure that it's true. that the orbit of the Earth would decay in a noticeably different way if the Sun will slow down. Or I guess what I should say is I'm not sure whether it would decay at all.