Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24577221-20161107024541

Starhenge has two areas: the big one with the observatory, and a smaller one. The big one generally seems to be central, with everything rotating around its axis, including the small area.

If a Celestial monster is placed on the small area and muted, its little "rest" symbols are spread out, trailing back along the path that the small area traces. The effect is somewhat like if there was a trail of smoke.

But if a monster on the small area is selected, the point of view changes. The small area becomes stationary (or nearly so); the large area seems to rotate around it. The difference is something like that between the geocentric and heliocentric models of the solar system.

How do you prove which model is correct? You look for evidence. When the small area is selected as the viewpoint, the little rest symbols still are directed at a 90° angle away from the line between the big and small areas; their direction changes as the big area seems to rotate around the small area. That doesn't make a lot of sense. That model of the "center of the universe" can't be right.

I would be neglectful if I didn't point out that in reality, the Earth and the Sun revolve around each other, with each moving proportionately to the inverse if its mass. Similarly, the Earth and the Moon revolve around each other; the centrepoint of that revolvution is below the surface of the Earth. All of the other planets revolve around the Sun -- or more precisely each planet and the Sun revolve around each other. So the movement of the Sun is actually very wobbly, as a result of the effects of all of the planets, all of the moons revolving with all of those planets, all of the other things in the solar system... and the Sun revolving around the center of our galaxy, influenced by everything else in the galaxy. All of the other galaxies moving with respect to each other. Everything twirling and bobbing in a complex dance..! 