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originally posted in:Secrets of Destiny
4/7/2015 2:26:32 AM
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What do you mean, it weights more than the earth? The earth has no weight, the earth only has mass.
So you mean to say the traveler has 185,333 times earths mass?
Well you said don't turn off the anti-gravity, and you are right. With that much mass the traveler would wreak havoc. Just imagine the gravitational pull. The suns mass is about 333,000 times that of earh. You see that by your calculations the traveler would have more than half the mass of the sun. WHICH IS TOTALLY CRAZY! Haha. Not trying to criticize you I love what you have done. Still CRAZY!!
If that was true we would be totally -blam!-ed. Like, royally. Life on earth would be impossible.
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You'll have to forgive my casual use of the word "weight." On the lore end of things, I wonder if the Traveler was birthed from a star...
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Yeah, I just could not help but pointing it out. I know that most people will use that word as a synonym for mass. As I said, I was not trying to criticize. I love your post it got me thinking. But I think your assumptions might be incorrect. Not saying your calculation is wrong. But even with something as mystical as the traveler I don't know if it would have half the mass of the sun. It would probably collapse under its own mass and become a black hole, no? ... But maybe space magic prevents that from happening.... But yes, I wonder about the origin of the traveler, too. I hope some things will be revealed to us in the future.
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I updated the OP to be a bit more correct, I left the opening statement with the word "weight" for the sake of simplicity, but took care of my summary statement. I was talking with a friend in the Secrets of Destiny about the shadow realms (like VoG, CE, and other "pockets" of darkness), and there's some speculation that there might be a realm of Light, and that the Traveler is actually just a conduit to this realm, not the actual source. So, I know very little about physics, but maybe this mass is being used to tear a very small hole in the realm of light...
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Edited by JarodColdbreak: 4/7/2015 2:51:42 AMWell I am also just an amateur when it comes to astrophysics but I know a little bit. Not enough to back up my statements with solid calculations though. The one with the black hole should be taken with a grain of salt, since I do not know at what mass an object the size of the traveler would collapse into a black hole. But there is a point where it would do exactly that. And considering it is very small with so much mass I just assume the point is reached already. But good thought updating your post, we can always improve on our work! Keep that post alive I think it is very interesting. Will continue to bump if I do not forget about it. It was stated somewhere that the traveler can operate outside of the laws of physics that we know of. If that is the case it would be interesting to see what exactly it does. If it can just ignore the fact it should be crushed under its own mass or pull everything towards it with gravity. But if it can operate outside the laws of physics ,then it might be useless to trying to calculate its mass, since it would have no requirement to have its size and material and mass add up to our real world physics. It can get kinda tricky when you start thinking about that. Imagine that a scoop of neutron star matter has the same mass as 50 million elephants ( a nice example that is often used by TV and some books). And that is with real world physics. What the traveler could do if it ignored this. Ha, unimaginable. But yeah, a realm of light... I wonder. I also wonder if, what is always referred to as light, does have any real light like properties at all. So many questions!!
