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Cool! So you were able to make it so that the calendar could mesh with earth time just enough so that you could fit your birthday into it as a significant day. It also makes sense that the months follow the Eivir.
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I basically “fixed” earth time to eliminate leap years and make all months the same length. It would have worked with 12 months too, but 9 made more sense.
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📚 Appreciator of BooksThat works. I like 9, it has fun properties. 12 does to of course😆
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No problem, thanks for your input! I think I’m just going to try to make up something else to power them. I don’t want to go too far into all the science behind it, but I just wanted something to explain how the spaceships worked. It’s kind of just one of those things you have to brainstorm a bit for, so I’ll do that eventually.
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Fair enough, sounds good to me!
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I have an idea on the subject of month, rotations, weeks and days with math…all the numbers relate to seven somehow.
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#AnduthForever (hopefully 💕)Cool! The best way to work with 7 when it comes to things like cycles, is to simply take advantage of the fact that 7 is a prime number. That way you can factor it with other numbers to get a series of unique combinations.
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@rae @thearcaneaxiom that’s pretty cool!
Considering a week already has 7 days in our universe, you could easily build it around that….
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@jonas That’s too funny about your birthday being in the middle of the year!
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So. I require some assistance.
I have a planet that has no sun. Ok, technically it does orbit a star, but that’s not important right now. The sun and the stars are not visible from the planet (its two moons are sometimes visible as dim grey disks, though).
So my question is: How in the shadows (ignore my weird Ciali expressions) are these people going to measure time? They have no concept of a ‘day’, and they also wouldn’t have a solar year. The day thing is more of an issue, though, because it’s kind of, um, really hard to write a story without making any mention of a ‘day’ 😅
Any suggestions are welcome because I’m stumped on this one.
Thanks!
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They could use an hourglass maybe?
I have no clue….sorry…
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LEFSE FOREVER!!!!!! <333So, it orbits a star so far away that they can’t even see it? And there are no other stars near enough to be seen? I’m not sure if it would even be possible for a planet to be orbiting a star that was far enough away that it couldn’t even be seen, but idk.
I have the same problem on Ildin, since people live underground. I think that they could still easily have minutes and hours, because those aren’t based on any natural pattern really. I’m guessing they would have no concept of days, though. (On Ildin they might since their planet does have a day-night cycle, it just isn’t something that matters to the inhabitants.) They would likely base longer time measurements on any other regular cycles. For example, if their moons have regular orbits, they could still have the concept of a month. A year could just be an arbitrary number of months, and a day could just be an arbitrary fraction of a month.
There are a lot of technical difficulties with life on a planet with no light at all, but since you didn’t ask for help about that, I won’t make any suggestions about that unless you want me to.
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📚 Appreciator of BooksOh, no, the star is either a blackhole (which I would have to fudge immensely to get to work) or a new thing I’ll have to invent. I’m pretty sure that if it was a black hole there would still be light visible unless it was inside the event horizon (which would just be ridiculous ((and also you might still be able to see light if you were looking away from the black hole))).
I was thinking that they could use the moons for some things, and I suppose that could work for their year. You’re right, they wouldn’t have any concept of a ‘day’, but they would probably still have some way to break the time up into smaller chunks.
Like what technical difficulties?
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That’s ok, this is kind of a complicated question. An hourglass-like thing was something I considered, but I thought that probably wouldn’t work very well.
Thank you, too.
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Okay. I have no idea whether a planet could safely orbit a blackhole.
These are the main technical difficulties I was thinking of:
- Planets are warmed by light from the star they orbit.
- Plants need light to photosynthesis, and animals need plants to eat. (You could replace all plants with fungi, which don’t need light from my understanding.)
Also, I don’t think that being near a blackhole would prevent them from seeing stars. (They couldn’t see stars that are behind the event horizon, but I think they would be able to see all the rest.) Unless you’re saying that their system is just not anywhere near other stars. (I think that technically, stars tend to clump together to form galaxies due to their gravitational pull on each other, but there probably could be exceptional circumstances that allowed a star to be on its own.)
You could probably come up with some magical explanations that deal with most of these issues.
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📚 Appreciator of BooksOn the topic of time telling, since a blackhole would probably only block light from stars behind it, that would allow them to measure days, because the visibility of stars would fluctuate on a daily basis.
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