Answer by M. A. Golding for What would days and nights look like on this...
If the tube rotated to produce "gravity", that gravity would pull down to the outside of the tube. So people would look up at the suns passing by.If the suns have the mass of Sol, the Sun, they will...
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Answer by mic_e for What would days and nights look like on this cylindrical...
Let me start with the additional problems that arise:The trajectory of the suns is not stable. If they are slightly off-center, gravity will pull them towards the side of the cylinder that they're...
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I can talk about the math in the abstract but since we have no figures here, it will be rather abstract.The two factors will be:1. Absolute magnitude of the suns2. Distance from the sun to the surface...
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First pass: the geometry is simpleIn the first pass, we disregard the cylindrical shape of the world, and we assume that the light sources are in free space, moving against a black backdrop.Let's...
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What would days and nights look like on this cylindrical world?
This is yet another "literal worldbuilding" question, as in, building worlds. Inspired, in part, by this question.What if this world is a very long (effectively infinite) hollow cylindrical cavity with...
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