Timeline for Can an alien society believe that their star system is the universe?
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| May 30, 2019 at 18:59 | answer | added | Boundegar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 23, 2019 at 11:20 | comment | added | Julian Egner | @Nyakouai no problem with that. You were brave enough to post the idea as an Answer, so you should get the credits | |
| Apr 18, 2019 at 10:36 | answer | added | Dast | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 18, 2019 at 10:27 | comment | added | Trish | Kaldath system? | |
| Apr 18, 2019 at 2:33 | answer | added | Josh | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 18, 2019 at 1:41 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | It looks like you are looking for a scientific answer, but it might be worth nothing that there's a very strong philosophical answer here. "The universe" doesn't need to be any larger than the self. Science doesn't require a universe larger than our skin. However, the equations describing the motion of the universe are much much simpler if we assume that space extends further out from our skins. Lots of results which might be mere happenstance turn out to be physical geometry if we extend space further outwards... which is exactly the reason science thinks the universe is big! | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 22:20 | comment | added | asgallant | Do your aliens need to have an understanding of their solar system comparable to humans in the 1950's? That is, they know of the existence of most/all of the major planets, any asteroid belt(s), and have hypothesized or discovered the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, thus have a roughly correct idea of the size and composition of the solar system (with the exception of believing the stars are also a part of it). | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 22:17 | comment | added | Elessar | @asgallant while a person in the society might have made the claim, it is thought of as we would think "the earth is flat", so not accepted by any prominent scientist. It is not backed up with evidence convincing the scientific community that it is a better explanation. | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 21:54 | comment | added | asgallant | Do you require that none of the aliens have discovered the truth, or that it is simply not accepted as fact? | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | user | Definitely relevant: Can anything be seen from the center of the Boötes void? How dark would it be? on Physics. | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 15:44 | comment | added | AJFaraday | Folks on earth used to think that the stars were painted on a celestial dome. They could believe something similar, that there's an actual barrier where their star system ends. | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 15:40 | answer | added | Eduardo W. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 15:10 | answer | added | Aubreal | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 14:47 | vote | accept | Elessar | ||
| Apr 17, 2019 at 10:38 | comment | added | Ink blot | Vaguely related: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/135411/… | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 9:29 | answer | added | WittierDinosaur | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 5:42 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 5:17 | comment | added | jwenting | @ThisIsMe or better yet a religion that declares the idea of there being other worlds and suns to be heresy, and enforces adherence and proper religious fervour by severely punishing heretics. | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 16:02 | answer | added | Yakk | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 15:13 | answer | added | tfrascaroli | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 14:38 | comment | added | Doktor J | @ThisIsMe and then said charismatic leader bans "treasonous" activities, like astronomy... | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 13:53 | answer | added | KFoley | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 12:49 | answer | added | Tyler S. Loeper | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 9:14 | answer | added | Stig Hemmer | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 8:25 | answer | added | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | timeline score: 32 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 8:13 | comment | added | ThisIsMe | well; considering there are actual, real-life humans that believe that the entire universe is a projection on a dome over the earth ('not even the solar system is real'); this premise isn't that difficult to explain: all you need is a charismatic leader and a few scientifically illiterate followers | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 8:11 | comment | added | Separatrix | and no mention of Krikkit? | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 8:00 | comment | added | Nyakouai | @JulianEgner My bad, just saw your comment (posted the answer like 15 mins ago). Someone indeed thought about it. | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 7:45 | answer | added | Nyakouai | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 7:13 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 16, 2019 at 6:57 | comment | added | Julian Egner | a "hardcore" solution would be to place the aliens solar system inside of a dyson sphere... | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 6:52 | answer | added | Vashu | timeline score: 66 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 6:30 | comment | added | Arcanist Lupus | What if they can't see the stars? | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 6:29 | answer | added | Tim B II | timeline score: 25 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 6:10 | answer | added | Ville Niemi | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 5:33 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Apr 16, 2019 at 5:22 | history | asked | Elessar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |