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Re: Attempt at Atys Cosmology
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:03 pm
by keoni
thosholm wrote:There is a simple experiment as to whether or not the Atys light source travels: a sun clock. Over the course of an Atys day, check the directions your shadow falls in. If it remains constant, then we have a constant main light source, if it moves, the relative position of the light source to Atys moves.
Alternately, just stand in the same spot for awhile (say, for a long crafting grind run), and set your view so the 'sun' is nestled in the intersection of some of the great branches overhead. The 'sun' stays in precisely that spot... and as day passes into night, it then dims and shifts towards the blue spectrum, in order to become the main source of our 'moonlight'.
Re: Attempt at Atys Cosmology
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:15 am
by thebax
I stongly suspect that we are in fact a microscopic world. When we travel to farther reaches of our "planet" we will find that we are in fact on a smudge of mold growing on the tip of a forgotten sneaker in an undergrads dorm-room closet. The light in the sky is in fact a grow-light, which is on a timer.
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Re: Attempt at Atys Cosmology
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:05 am
by asaseth
thebax wrote:I stongly suspect that we are in fact a microscopic world. When we travel to farther reaches of our "planet" we will find that we are in fact on a smudge of mold growing on the tip of a forgotten sneaker in an undergrads dorm-room closet. The light in the sky is in fact a grow-light, which is on a timer.
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Or, mayhaps, some five-leafed aeromatic plant that needs a grow-light? Certainly would explain the look of the Kami, and the fact that the explosion and gass while digging is always green. Mmmmmm... magic!
Re: Attempt at Atys Cosmology
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:41 pm
by andy707
Perhaps our sun is a pulsating star?
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Re: Attempt at Atys Cosmology
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:05 pm
by thosholm
The fact that the sun doesn't move in the sky might be explained with Atys axis rotation being so slow, that it always faces the same way towards the sun on its orbit.
Earth's moon does that with Earth.