Particle playground sort order6/19/2023 What sort of implications does that have? We're dead-wrong about the size of planets and stars and stuff?That's just the beginning of it. Yeup, that is the sort of thing I was wondering about. The fact that the planet is by a black hole, and probably moving incredibly quickly around the black hole (even by normal solar system orbit standards) would make communicating to or from such a planet very difficult. Just by being under the gravitational effects of the black hole, hundreds of years would pass for outside observers in Earth-Like gravity. Can anyone verify how destructive these beams are? I know that they are concentrated around the accretion disk, but how close can you get before this would be a problem? I guess the solar system could just have a really strong magnetic field and just be located in a very special theoretically convenient spot. The only thing to worry about are the streams of particles and energy that comes with being near a black hole. This is a perfectly valid thing to do, so long as you don't go to close to it (which on a galactic scale wouldn't happen), you will be fine. Time moves slower under larger gravitational effects, have the solar system orbit very closely around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy it exists in. That said, I'm not aiming for hard sci-fi here I just want something that won't disintegrate upon application of basic intelligent thinking and/or Fridge Logic. And, of course, I haven't begun to puzzle out what sort of MacGuffin might be causing such an effect. How would this distort what we've discovered about far-off galaxies and such? Does it cause discrepancies with the math we've already worked out? And it might not even make logical sense. I'm concerned that this mucks about with astronomy as we know it. (Earth might also have intentionally been placed under some sort of interdiction, but the details have been lost to the mists of time, and nobody goes to the Solar System now.) Outside of Earth, however, vast civilizations have risen and fallen. This means that there's a reason that nobody came around and visited the Solar System: it moves slow as molasses and our various attempts to communicate with extraterrestrials have gotten unrecognizably stretched out due to the time differential. Details can vary, but that's the basic idea behind it. One year of time within the Solar System corresponds to a significantly longer time outside of the bubble/aura/whatever. Premise: the Solar System is, for whatever reason, contained in a time dilation bubble. In order to achieve the "vast interstellar alien empires while Earth remains in its current state" effect, without resorting to the exact device used in Farscape (vast distances that are only bridged by a wormhole), I had a weird thought and I want to see if it works. I'm toying with an RPG idea involving a particular inspired-by- Farscape sci-fi setting. So, here's a question I've got for the physics-inclined folks, and probably some of the astronomy people.
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