Feruchemist he/him Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 According to Arcanum Unbounded, Taldain is a tidally locked planet that does not rotate significantly. Thus, it has one dark side and one light side. How can this be? Is this physically possible?
1 WeiryWriter he/him Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, Feruchemist said: According to Arcanum Unbounded, Taldain is a tidally locked planet that does not rotate significantly. Thus, it has one dark side and one light side. How can this be? Is this physically possible? Yes. Technically it does rotate, but one rotation (around its axis) = one revolution (around the star) so the same side is always pointing at the main sun. A real world example of this is our moon. 2
0 Feruchemist he/him Posted October 21, 2018 Author Posted October 21, 2018 Thank you @WeiryWriter, I should have recognized this.
0 Dunkum he/him Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 35 minutes ago, Feruchemist said: According to Arcanum Unbounded, Taldain is a tidally locked planet that does not rotate significantly. Thus, it has one dark side and one light side. How can this be? Is this physically possible? just for a smaller scale example - the moon is tidally locked with respect to Earth, so it always has the same side facing Earth, so the effect actually can be observed right here without any kind of fancy equipment. 1
0 Feruchemist he/him Posted October 21, 2018 Author Posted October 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Dunkum said: just for a smaller scale example - the moon is tidally locked with respect to Earth, so it always has the same side facing Earth, so the effect actually can be observed right here without any kind of fancy equipment. Thank you @Dunkum.
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According to Arcanum Unbounded, Taldain is a tidally locked planet that does not rotate significantly. Thus, it has one dark side and one light side.
How can this be? Is this physically possible?
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