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Post by Sojourner on Jan 26, 2004 14:48:05 GMT -5
A short point about UWP, particularly orbital characteristics - do they comply with cosmology?
In particular, would these stats obey Kepler's laws?
It would be pretty embarressing for some boffin to come along and tell us that our planet can't have a year of whatever length given its orbital period...
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Post by zholud on Jan 26, 2004 16:02:40 GMT -5
A short point about UWP, particularly orbital characteristics - do they comply with cosmology? They are close guesses partially based on the science as we know it, in the cases of rotation, gravity and max/min star/planet distance. Due to the fact that system is more or less self stabilizing, so most likely you always will be within the limits. |
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Post by Kage2020 on Jan 26, 2004 20:17:26 GMT -5
They are abstractions, used to model the 'reality' in terms which can be represented by various random roles and design sequences. Their prime use is to prevent the type of "GW science" that perpetuates (i.e. bad science) rather than to provide a completely accurate representation of reality (since we don't fully understand that reality in terms of extra-solar systems or even the solar system)... Could some boffin come along and tell use that they are wrong? Well, yes. Let's just face it the whole orbit system is loosely based of Bodes Law so there's a bad point to start off with. The Guide creates a - relatively - easy and step-by-step process to created Terra-favoured worlds which conforms to rough physics. They are there merely to operate as guidelines and a framework for interpretation rather than as a restriction for that. But they are also there to be used, not ignored merely because you want a tropical world orbitting a small speck of an M5 star (since it is so distanct) because it is a 'cool image'... Kage |
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