#Space engine diffraction spikes super movie

Is it inspired by some movie that features this 'spike pointing on some person' effect? I remember seeing one, but I don't seem to remember its name. 172.71.242.172 08:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC) Adding to 172.71.'s point, the spikes are made of star, so it will be incandescent gas with plasma corona. Please stop dunking the Earth into the Sun. The Sun hardly moves much if you dunk the Earth into it, why should the exoplanet move the spike? At best you'd get a similar effect to karate chopping a stream of water from a hose. The spikes are stellar artifacts of distant observers, with all the mass of the star behind them. Why does the spike slice the planet instead of the planet breaking the tip off the spike? Are the spikes like enormous light sabers? Barmar ( talk) 00:43, 13 April 2023 (UTC) So if a blade would actually go through the planet there would only be local destruction and a change of momentum. The finger holes would instantly collapse. Randell actually explained this in his 'What if a bowling ball would have the size of the earth?'. Pretty sure gravity causes the pieces to drift back together. All power to your typing fingers! 172.70.85.66 00:15, 13 April 2023 (UTC)Įxoplanets nevertheless exist because, alongside the visible diffraction spikes that chop them up, there are invisible defraction spikes that reassemble them. As long as you learn from it, and we learn what useful things you want to say, nothing at all to worry about. I tried to make an initial explanation, but then someone beat me to it and I made a fool of myself on the page trying to add a comment where it didn't go. Īdd a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments! Discussion

$space engine diffraction spikes super$

Transcript Bad news for exoplanets: it turns out those diffraction spikes are real. The title text also claims that the spikes produce sufficient light and heat to disrupt seasonal (and perhaps even diurnal) patterns on planets that come close enough to them, but this is not something we experience on Earth. This would make our own solar system exceptionally fortunate, given the number of planetary bodies that remain whole, though it could perhaps serve as an explanation for the Asteroid belt, being remnants of formerly destroyed planets. The title text suggests that a planet would have to be particularly lucky to avoid encountering one of these spikes during its lifetime.

$space engine diffraction spikes super$

Additionally, they appear to nullify gravity - preventing the halves from recombining and allowing them to maintain their shape. The spikes have sufficient energy and coherence to slice planets that intersect them, rather than merely bludgeon or vaporize them. The comic feigns that these artifacts are real spikes of stellar matter extending from the stars being viewed. They've become especially well known lately because they're quite prominent in images from the James Webb Space Telescope its bigger spikes are due to the edges of the hexagonal mirror sections, not the struts. In telescopes, they are often caused by the support struts of the secondary mirror in the telescope. Title text: Even if a planet is lucky enough to have a stable orbit that weaves between the spikes, the seasons get weird whenever it passes close to them.ĭiffraction spikes are visual artifacts that appear to extend from light sources, mostly when viewed through a reflector telescope.

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