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Could be, but it doesn't easily explain how planets don't fall of orbits...

You know, I might get started on an in-universe "introduction to celestial mechanics" primer.

Scytale wrote:Could be, but it doesn't easily explain how planets don't fall of orbits...

They're held up by string.

Scytale wrote:Could be, but it doesn't easily explain how planets don't fall of orbits...

You know, I might get started on an in-universe "introduction to celestial mechanics" primer.

With the water bowl gravity could be too weak and with my idea about it being in a different universe there could be no gravity at all.

Jetison333 wrote: it being in a different universe there could be no gravity at all.

Then you'd have to explain why planets exist and why planet bound civilisations are planetbound and dont fly around the universe without ships

Simple! Just say there's a force that's weak enough that it only becomes apparent on a large scale when you get large masses oh wait

Scytale wrote:Simple! Just say there's a force that's weak enough that it only becomes apparent on a large scale when you get large masses oh wait

I see what you did there.

Again, though, what I haven't thought of an explanation for is how there can be plant and animal life on both sides of a planet that doesn't rotate....

Also:

Why the planets in Super Mario Galaxy would explode.

Cornflakes_91 wrote:

Jetison333 wrote: it being in a different universe there could be no gravity at all.

Then you'd have to explain why planets exist and why planet bound civilisations are planetbound and dont fly around the universe without ships

not sure how to explain how planets were created but the reason they fly with ships is because of no atmosphere.

How about the cosmic stuff repels all other kind of matter, shaping it into spheres and pushing people onto their surfaces?
The asteroids are not spherical because they have a strong personality, although tempered by an obstinate gregariousness.

O_o

Leo wrote:How about the cosmic stuff repels all other kind of matter, shaping it into spheres and pushing people onto their surfaces?
The asteroids are not spherical because they have a strong personality, although tempered by an obstinate gregariousness.

this is perfect! allthough you could explain asteroids because the pushing affects more mass so that astreroids could stay in there shape. if that made any sense at all.

A way to achieve that could be that the cosmic stuff, instead of repelling matter, is so strongly attracted to it that it wraps it like a mold, and it would team up more on massive bodies like planets and stars. Not sure how to work the math of it. And to make wormholes in a "flat" universe one would need a repellent for that stuff, to carve tunnels where the laws of physics are even weirder, putting GR tensors to shame.

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