Says who? Both on magically sealing somebody inside an object resulting in mass limitations, or the small Moon being smaller than Nightmare Moon. She's not that big. It doesn't have to be the size of the Moon to be much, much larger than her.
OR they could have just used reality warping, I guess.
It's true that it doesn't have to be as large as the moon to be much larger than her, but it
does have to be much larger than most mythological portrayals of it. Of course, I didn't mention this earlier, but I treat the mythological equivalents of Celestia and Luna the same way. The fact that the author doesn't
realise how impressive the feat they're ascribing to their god is doesn't change what they're claiming said deity
does (So, yes, I ascribe similar power levels, to , say, Apollo, though he at least uses his chariot rather than telekinetic force)
.
Which tells us nothing about its size or composition when a small purple horse can blast a library sized tree more than twice it's height out of the ground. That's some energy output.
Are you really comparing the amount of energy the Earth receives from the Sun to a tiny explosion? It tells us how much energy the Earth s recieving from the Sun, which in turn provides a minimum temperature for the Sun (baring in mind that the entire surface of the planet has to receive solar energy), which provides a minimum
distance from the Earth, which provides a minimum
size.
High magic world's practically never have relation to reality. We're talking about a world where clouds do not form unless something magical creates them. Where gems are edible. Where the sun and moon revolve around a planet, not the other way around. You can assume nothing except what is actually depicted or stated in universe.
Again, the fact that we're capable of processing the images at
all (light and colours exist. Ground exists. Plants exist. Motion exists. Walking happens on top of the ground. etc.) means that the
vast majority is the same. All the differences even
implied in the show are
minor in comparison.
And there have been quite a few indications that the objects of discussion cannot be the objects they are in real life without micro managing and changing physical constants on the fly. Yet that doesn't seem to matter to you, since you just crow 'reality warping' no matter how little sense it makes.
It doesn't, anymore than saying "magic" does for you. If magic can replace the Sun,it can just as easily micro-manage those physical forces as it would have had to
anyway.
It isn't impossible. It's just that high magic worlds usually function off the same paradigm that the worlds depicted in mythology function off of.
Except that Equestria has far more advanced technology than mythology, they have globes of their planet, they even have
models of their Solar System including other planets. There isn't a single classical myth where people knew that other planets were
planets.
Actually, you did ascribe it to Celestia. You just didn't realize it at the moment.
Celestia does the same 'instant effect' that Twilight does. Which per your assumptions, can only be justified by the alicorns micro-managing universal constants to accelerate light and then slow it down before it causes living things to be incinerated by sunlight.
I was wondering if you were going to put that up. Celestia has been shown in Lesson Zero to correct the Sun's orbit multiple times per day. It's also been shown that what she does for the Summer Sun Celebration is only for show. She's controlling the Sun for
a lot longer before she starts her demonstration. The Sun rose eight minutes earlier than it appeared to.
Or it could just be that that said object isn't a star, but a magical light, heat, and life generating crystal like every other important magical object in MLP and there's nothing odd about such a thing at all.
Neither the Sun nor the Moon have crystalline appearances. And if it was a heat generating crystal, it'd fry large sections of the planet, freeze most of it or have to be very far away and therefore very large.
Okay, so earlier you were saying that there's nothing special about moving the celestial bodies and that directly translates to their raw power, but now Celestia can't manage Earth even though in your view it's ridiculously smaller and thus easier to manage, because it's not 'her celestial body'.
Be somewhat consistent, will you.
Not her Celestial body and therefore she'd have to
steal it. She
can, but putting the planet in a tug of war is a bad idea. And again, the size isn't the issue. The fact that she's
standing on it is.
(...Also, where exactly are these 'hundred other celestial bodies and who are these other individuals? Does every unicorn get his own personal asteroid?)
Discord gets Eris, Cadance gets Venus, Chrysalis gets Ganymede etc. Unicorns are not the only inhabitants of the setting. Again though, that's just in
my version and not canon, but it's just an example of a possible reason of which many could exist.
It increased her power over four hundred (400) times, not even counting the sun's solid core of heavier matter? Because that's about how much larger the sun is than the moon, and, as I've stated before, I'm not even factoring in that the moon is a lot less dense, overall, than the sun is.
I don't care if it increased her power
a trillion times. Besides, again, we never see Luna exerting any effort in raising the moon. For all we knew, to her, it;s the equivalent of an
atom and the Sun is the equivalent of
several kilograms to Celestia.
If size is even barely related to their relative power levels then the Nightmare would have to be on the level of some sort of Elder God in order to have swayed the balance even partially in Her own favor.
So?
Sereg says that the MLP celestial bodies are all IRL sized, despite the multiple impossibilities (due to the complexity/competence required that they haven't demonstrated in anything else) required, and we're all arguing with him. He says that saying that they use magic instead is silly, but his solution requires even more magic.
You just claimed that it is
physically impossible for
anyone you've ever meant to be physically capable of doing
anything that
you personally haven't witnessed. I hope you realise how ridiculous that is.
Alright. Incredibly irrelevant, but alright. Equestria Physics is extremely wonky as a whole, so I can't imagine why you guys are arguing about this. Equestria Moon could be the size of IRL for all it cares, and it would probably be the same. The same could be said with the Sun. Why? Magic.
I mean, shit, impossibilities? Pfft. Equestria is a home for a spirit of Chaos that could make inpossibilities screw themselves.
And while this is irrelevant, I'll say that despite Cadence doesn't have a cosmic power like moving the sun and whatnot -- she could, but she would probably mess it up --, she does have her domain. Her domain being Love. It's actually pretty terrifying.
Quest Master is always right about their own setting. No problem.
(To avoid cluttering up the thread, if people want to continue discussing this with me, PMs would almost certainly be better)
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