More astrophysics

[kengr]

I've just realized that I forgot a point I was going to make in my last post.

Earth has several moons, but Luna isn't one of them.

Yes, really.
Compare the Terra/Luna pair with any other moon & planet in the solar system, and you find a number of *glaring* differences.

First of all the center of mass of the Terra/Luna pair is *outside* of Earth. Not

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[fayanora]

I think I'd have to see that in an actual image. The words just aren't translating properly to images in my brain. This is a common problem for me. I can translate my own thoughts and mental images to words, but often, other people's words don't translate very well into images for me. A huge problem for me with reading fiction is I have to assign real people to play certain characters in the story or else what I picture as the characters will be highly random, ranging anywhere from a perpetually-shifting face to a scribble to an empty space. The Harry Potter movies helped me a lot for the characters that were in both the movies and the books. But even then, the book characters who weren't in the movie remained random. And if I watch a cartoon before reading a book or a fanfic, the characters in my mind appear as that style of cartoon.

I also tend to assign real locations to places described in in stories. When I was reading Harry Potter, I had to assemble Hogwarts from parts of the high school I went to, then change the walls to stone, because I couldn't follow the story otherwise.

Even in my writing, I assembled Fae Springs school from parts of my high school. In the case of Hogwarts and Fae Springs both, I had to stack things up to make multiple levels. For Fae Springs, I also moved the library's location to one wall rather than the center, moved the cafeteria to where the office was, and stretched it out.

I should probably draw a map for the inside of the main Fae Springs building, the way I did for Salem School. Not sure why I haven't yet, given only one of the books takes place at Salem School.

Anyway yeah, I'd have to see it drawn out. I get so far in your description and the whole mental image falls apart into random scribbles and brain static.