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by vynsane » Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:08 am
Cool, glad you're okay with my doing so.
"keep the platforms floating" - ah, I had assumed whatever cataclysm that befell Aurora had in some way demolished the core of the planet but affected the gravity in such a way that the remnants of the crust would float at the same level they had always occupied, just now without being physically anchored to each-other, which would necessitate the pillars to tie everything together. Now I have a different view since you say they're anti-gravity.
The theory I was thinking of was, taking the earth as an example, if you were to instantaneously replace the iron core and layers of magma with a tiny, super-dense star that perfectly mimicked the gravitational properties of what it replaced, we might end up with our same tectonic plates floating on air instead of magma, and then pseudo-scientifically hand-wave away any discrepancies. Of course, this is nothing new, there have been plenty of 'hollow earth' theories in the past (and present, I guess).
