What wold happen if someone launched a nuclear probe into the sun?

Like, a nuclear powered probe. Also, how big or how much nuclear energy would have to be used to blow up the sun? And once the sun started exploding how long would it be before the earth was consumed?





Don't worry, I don't have plans on blowing up the sun. I'm developing a plot for a script.|||The Sun packs 330,000 as much mass as the Earth does. No hydrogen bomb would add more than a drop to the fusion reactor the Sun is.





Now, fictionally, I you want to blow up the Sun, here is how to do it.





The first step in the hydrogen fusion chain, is controlled by the weak force. The force particles of the weak force are the W and Z bosons. So if you'd use a particle accelerator to create a stream of W's and Z's, then hypothetically you could speed up the fusion in the Sun and make it turn into a red giant a few billion years before its time.





Hypothetically speaking :)|||Okay. You know that bright white flash you see when a nuke detonates? The Sun is a lot like that. And, it's a lot bigger than the Earth. You could mine every ounce of fissile material on Earth enrich it to the best of our abilities, and let fly. Presuming you had some mechanism which would allow your warhead to achieve detonation rather than simply melting into a useless radioactive paperweight, you would have achieved something on par with spitting into the ocean.|||Are you kidding? The sun is a huge fusion reaction that's been exploding for billions of years, and will continue to explode for billions of years to come.





The biggest atom bomb you could build, with all the nuclear fuel you could put it into it, wouldn't do a damn thing to the sun. Seriously, it's just too damn big.|||there's just no way this is anywhere near realistic with nuclear power. we couldn't even blow up the earth and the sun is over 300,000 times more massive. you'll just have to technobabble your way out of this one. call it an antimatter generator or something. as for how long it'd take, who knows? how long does the plot need it to take?|||That's the equivalent of throwing a drop of water into an ocean, and asking if it would affect the tides.





Here's a tip: Save yourself future embarrassment, and leave out anything about the Sun blowing up from your silly script.|||If you're patient enough, you can throw a small rock at the Sun, wait 5 billion years until it steps out of main sequence and then yell "Yay!, the rock changed the Sun, see?!".|||The heat of the sun would pretty much melt the probe thousands of miles before it even reached the surface. This is impossible to say the least.|||You could take every nuke on Earth and toss them into the sun and it would still be like a two year old pissing into the ocean.