What if the Earth would be a donut or cube?
This thing is interesting to think and when we are thinking about the possibility, that the natural planet would look like a donut, we must at first think that this thing is impossible. But then there is one small possibility that the planet would turn to donut-shaped, and that thing can happen when the planet, what is entirely melted, would start to rotate extremely fast, and then the thing like the material jet would go through it and form the planet to a donut. But I must say, that there is only an extremely small probability that this kind of thing would happen.
In this text, the fictional observer would stand on the outer layer of the donut-shaped planet. So this is not writing about Dyson's spheres or some hollow structure. The tale is about geometrical thought about the donut- and the cube-shaped planet, what is only exited in fiction.
What if the planet would look like a donut?
And the natural planet cannot have a form of the box, because gravity would pull it to the form of the ball. Of course, in the future is possible that the humans or some humanoids would use extremely large lasers to form the planets, how they want. But as you know that making the planet-sized sculpture is difficult, because gravity has a very big effect on those sized particles.
When we are thinking that the Earth-sized object would look like a donut, that would not affect creatures that are on the surface of that fictional particle. The most visible thing is that the horizon of the particle would be asymmetrical. On the other side, it would be really near the observer and another side it would be the farther. And inside the ring structure, the sky will be dominated a similar landscape, where the observer would stand. The horizon would be straight if it is near, but farther horizons are chamber heavily.
And the gravity inside the wheel or donut would be stronger than the outer layer, and that means that the donut would not probably have an atmosphere. Or the atmosphere in the inner side would be tight, but also thicker than the outer layer. If we are thinking sharply the atmosphere can fly to space because of centrifugal forces. And centrifugal forces can destroy the entire donut-world. So this means that this kind of thing can be only fiction.
But what if the planet would look like a cube?
This kind of planet would not even exist, or it must not rotate at all, because centrifugal forces would destroy it immediately. But if somebody or something would be standing on the surface of that particle, the thing what that creature sees is the straight horizon, and when the creature would reach the horizon, there would be a very deep canyon.
If the person just steps the wrong way, there is a possibility that the acceleration of falling speed causes that the creature would drop passing another layer and that means dropping to space. But the thing that happens is depending on the size of this fictional particle, and if the particle would have Earth-mass that character cannot slip to space. In this case, our main character would drop to the other layer when it goes back it sees that the layer, where that creature has just left is turned to the canyon.
One thing that we can say is that the gravity would pull character to down, and that means that if our main character wants to make a parachute jump from the edge of that layer, that thing would fail because gravity would pull it to that layer. So the thing is that those very interesting looking fictional worlds are interesting objects to think about how the geometrical form affects the way how creatures will see things.
Donut-Earth Video
Cube-Earth Video
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