Nuvendil said:
Your sun orbiting the planet theory would be problematic with many systems having multiple planets. The sun couldn't orbit all of them. |
The planets are all bunched up in the same place. It's a huge play area, but it's not covering an entire solar system. IE planets are never on the opposite side of the sun.
The sun itself is really just a standard video game sun that's part of the skybox. In one stream a player spent a long time trying to fly towards it but made no progress. However things started glitching out a bit, probably from floating point imprecision. That's a good sign that nothing exists farther out. So the skybox sun revolves around the whole play area giving every planet an identical 24 minute day and none of the planets move.
GribbleGrunger said:
But how does that prove the planet is rotating and not the sun? |
It proves the planet isn't spinning. Since the planet still experiences a day night transition though, it means either the planet orbits the sun every 24 minutes or the sun orbits the planet every 24 minutes.
Since all planets experience 24 minute days and all planets stay grouped up in the same area, the conclusion I came to is that the sun orbits them. This probably only happens while in the planet atmosphere. Otherwise you'd see the sun flying around like crazy while in space.
