Planets that have no time?

Discussion in 'Planets and Environments' started by TheTimeLord, Feb 1, 2013.

  1. RXD

    RXD Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Isn't time a universal thing?
     
  2. TheTimeLord

    TheTimeLord Existential Complex


    Well that's an assumption, because we don't know how planets are outside our solar system.
     
  3. RXD

    RXD Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Why would it be any different? Time is a dimension so it would apply to everything that exists.
     
  4. TheTimeLord

    TheTimeLord Existential Complex


    Yes, but this is a disease that infects planets, not actual time. EDIT: Is it me, or is your name said as R:rofl: on the quotes?
     
  5. Pseudoboss

    Pseudoboss Spaceman Spiff

    Off-ish-topic: I've always wondered if we really know if all of the quantum-mechanical fields are actually completely uniform throughout the universe. We can't know for sure, we have suggestions that the electromagnetic force is the same, or else we'd see spots of no light though the sky. For the Higgs field, as mass decreases, the orbital speed decreases, which would mean that spiral galaxies and stuff would be orbiting at much slower speeds, are much larger, or wouldn't exist at all, unless the gravitational constant changed, which could be because it's linked to the Higgs field through QFT.
    On the very largest of scales, we have absolutely no idea that I know of that suggests that the Nuclear forces are uniform. Due to the strange pattern of the layout of galaxies on the very largest scale, what's going on in the middle is anyone's guess.
     
  6. Lycaon

    Lycaon Big Damn Hero

    Universe as we know it cannot exist without time. This universe is based on (sub-)molecular processes which would just stop without time, it allows us to exist. Physics is on an edge, we want to know the reason of gravity, but why stop there and don't ask what the reason of time is? We have to find the smallest functional units which give everything it's properties, and maybe, there is the same for all, maybe we can't find it/them.

    So if you enter a planets atmosphere wich has no time, it's gameover :)

    Divide by 0 error :) meter/second (e.g. 10/0 = ?). There is no heat since temperature is movement of particles (is time standing still at 0 Kelvin?). But it would be interesting what light does when it enters a no-time-space.
     
  7. Alucard I

    Alucard I King Homestuck I

    I approve
     
  8. Filipfonky

    Filipfonky Cosmic Narwhal

    HOLY SHIT MY RETINAS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH OH GOD IT BURNS

    WHY
     
  9. Alucard I

    Alucard I King Homestuck I

    Because I can, mortal.
     
  10. Cuddle_fish

    Cuddle_fish Space Spelunker

    There is a thing call Gravitational time dilation. its when when a object's velocity increases while time decreases. this could mean that the planet in question could be orbiting a denser star or a less-dense star to cause this "slow or fast planet" to be possible.
     
  11. JakeMorph

    JakeMorph Aquatic Astronaut

    Ah, yes, I am familiar with the concepts you are referring to.
    (Although to say 'there is such a thing' is to put your full and utter trust into Einstein's theories, which may or may not be a good idea)
    So, theoretically, a planet with 'no time' could simply be moving at a theoretically infinite speed - which, of course, provides its own complications, but hey, like we've said, it's a game.
     
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  12. Pseudoboss

    Pseudoboss Spaceman Spiff

    You. . . You did not. . . GPS. . .
    I'm not going to. . .
    No.
     
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  13. Jamtoes

    Jamtoes Big Damn Hero

    No time could also means that half of the planet is always in the dark while the other side is always sunny.
     
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  14. TheTimeLord

    TheTimeLord Existential Complex


    ...What?
     
  15. TokamakuYokuu

    TokamakuYokuu Sandwich Man

    He means the planet not spinning. Which piles even more physics-defying problems on top.
     
  16. TheTimeLord

    TheTimeLord Existential Complex


    The whole time slowing down and time speeding up wouldn't cause the planet to stop rotating.
     
  17. TokamakuYokuu

    TokamakuYokuu Sandwich Man

    He's wrong anyways, because a complete lack of rotation should result in each day being a new year.
     
  18. Jamtoes

    Jamtoes Big Damn Hero

    Its Starbound, not a physics simulator.
     
  19. flippitydip

    flippitydip Big Damn Hero

    I really like this idea, it's pretty creative.
     
  20. TheTimeLord

    TheTimeLord Existential Complex

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