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Measuring Time in a World Where the Sun Never Sets
Huge gravity means satellites: moons, other planets, dust clouds, etc. so already you have very obvious candidates even with primitive technology. Gravity is an excellent clock as pointed out in (most)...
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What is the largest distance at which a Cube-world is distinguishable from a spherical world?
We are actually on the breakthrough to looking on planets from several light years away in high detail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCAL_(...
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What is the largest distance at which a Cube-world is distinguishable from a spherical world?
How about just being able to detect that there was something weird about the planet?
Oh, that is easy. At almost any distance at all at which the planet is distinguishable (for an Earth-sized planet ...
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What is the largest distance at which a Cube-world is distinguishable from a spherical world?
With current technology? Not much further than our solar system.
We rarely take direct images of exoplanets. The majority of exoplanet detection methods involve observing the star it orbits, then ...
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