Sorry for the delay.
Also, I wanted to thank you guys for the effort you've put into this so far.
Spica75 wrote:Because regardless HOW it´s done, it will take ridiculous amounts of energy to do it?
That never stopped Celestia before.
I have no problem with the "a wizard did it/it´s magic" explanation, but the power level involved in the above probably makes Celestia the most powerful magic user ever seen in fiction. Possibly by orders of magnitude. It´s an automatic God Mode "I win" button. There´s simply nothing with the level of power to stop her from doing whatever she wants.
Well, that's simply not the reality of Celestia's abilities. She seems to have a special trait that allows her to move the sun (as opposed to needing a bunch of unicorns), but is otherwise defeatable in other arenas. Well, unless she's a good actress and has allowed herself to be beaten, although that would call into question why she would have allowed it in certain instances.
So, you might just have made MLP:FIM the evil galaxydestroying alien invaders...
And you HAVE made them the evil STAR system destroying alien invaders.
Oops?
It's intentional, actually. I'm going for a "how could this be a bad idea" from the perspective of a certain event on Earth, in part because there's no expectation that anything will come of their efforts.
Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:One final comment: you have not asked "A physics question," CP. You have asked a magic question. Expecting the rest of the Solar System to compensate for the magic by way of physics Does Not Compute.
Do what you want. "It's magic. An Alicorn did it." But stop asking physics and astronomy to hold hands and smile about it. They're as confused as you are.
I asked because, aside from the behavior of the sun, I figured that it wouldn't tell the rest of the forces of the universe to stop working. Since others have gone through the trouble of working out the possibilities, I can only assume that introducing an element that defies physics doesn't render everything else meaningless.
Would you have said something similar had I approached the question like this:
"Imagine a simulated solar system that mirrors ours, except for the introduction of a phenomenon accounting for the sun orbiting a planet, that -- for an
assumed lack of scientific understanding -- doesn't directly affect anything else in the solar system. What would happen to the solar system?"