Sunset Shimmer has some time questions. After a conversation with a fellow pony, Sunset is thrown into a state of panic. How could time be so different?
While writing another story, I found myself asking questions regarding time for both FIM and EqG. After a night's worth of calculations, I came up with something. This story is from some of those findings.
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Okey this is realy clever
Ah, the time dilation issue. I'm shocked at how few people actually think about the differences between the worlds, and the disturbing ramifications of having the Portal open most of the time.
She really should have thought about that sort of thing after the Sirens were shown to still be around.
Well, so long as they know, maybe they will keep the portal closed more often. Honestly, the damage they risk is pretty severe. Especially after SciTwi's little Midnight Episode.
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I must be a minority then :\
I don't know why people seem to think the portal is open (and unguarded!) all the time. There is almost no evidence towards that. I say almost because it's implied in "Friendship Games", but never explicit. Really, anyone can explain the magic present when the portal is closed (if it is closed) as residual.
My personal headcanon: Twilight plays gatekeeper and keeps the portal closed, opening it only when necessary. If someone wants/needs to come through, they need to co-ordinate it with Twilight.
What I then wonder is what these off-schedule openings to to the portal's cycle? Does it continue it's original path? or does it reset every time the portal is opened?
...Yes, I have given this matter quite a fair bit of thought... :|
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To be fair to poor SciTwi, most the magic she accumulated came from the humane6. Any magic that leaked through afterward could be attributed to space/time cracks which affected the portal on the Equestrian side as well. If your door is broken, rain will still come through--even if it is closed.
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That would mainly depend on the reason for the portals schedule, I think. If it's an energy thing, then yeah, probably. More likely, in my opinion, it has to do to a cycle where the flow of time syncs up every so often. There is nothing to say the difference in the flow of time is consistent, after all. It could be that as they get close enough to each other's "rhythm", the portal, which acts as a decent bridge and conduit, opens for a few days, then closes again as the difference becomes greater again. And that leads to the rather scary idea that the portal, rather forcefully, if temporarily, syncs the two up again. The stress that kind of thing would put on the worlds, and the consequences, are quite horrifying. Assuming that is the case. And, yeah, SciTwi poking the portal in Friendship Games is where a lot of that train of thought probably comes from.
Clearly, I, too, have given this far more thought then I really ought to.
I was half expecting it to be the case that the Equestrian Year is just much shorter, like it's only 6 months long. They do measure stuff in moons. Also they control day and night length precisely along with when seasons change so they would decide how long days, months and years would be how ever they liked.
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I plan on posting my equations and findings as a blog in the upcoming weeks. My main problem is finding time to write it all down, as I imagine it will be quite lengthy.
Part of writing this story was to explore how Sunset may react to the news, and also to spark conversation.
Dragonsword35d, you have got me intrigued (which is not a good thing because now I have a new obsession).
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When the portal closed at the end of EqG 1, it was completely solid, while in FG, it rippled when Sunset touched it. That could easily be interpreted as the portal being left open (or a continuity error).
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Time dilation was a pretty big thing when RR came out, but since then most people have just accepted it or stopped caring.
FiM never really cared about having a timeline. They had vagueish timeframes, but there’s no solid numbers (a kind of symbolic timeline). Trying to piece things into a proper timeline (with or without episode reordering) just breaks everything. Just look at the Cake twins.
It also doesn’t help with the entire character age issue. Originally the mane 6 were supposed to be 12-17 but never had their ages stated (post from Lauren Faust, in another interview she mentions she didn’t want them to be in school because it was too limiting, so that may have something to do with it). Now the writers seem to have put them at early twenties (from a few interviews and tweets), but at the time of EqG 1, it was fully possible that Twilight didn’t change age when going through the mirror. If you watched the summertime shorts, the writers stopped keeping EqG in a linear progression as well.
needs a sequel
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Maybe...
Not really planning on one, but I do intend to use the time dilation in some of my upcoming stories.
And thanks for the fave :)
huh... didn't expect the effects of gravity to come up
Just one clarification though: Gravity is in space as it has a seemingly infinite reach, the force just falls off very quickly with distance. Plus... it's required to make things orbit each other
The reason for weightlessness in space is because you are in free-fall