Gus by Terry Smith

Author:Terry Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-04-17T14:21:13+00:00

Chapter 7

The Planet

The group had tried several times to talk to Thad about their planet. It was definitely different from Earth in that there was no sun, very little rain, rarely any clouds in the sky and the temperature was relatively constant with only a slight breeze at any time. They finally trapped Thad one evening when he decided to invite himself to dinner knowing the quality of meals that Jim prepared. Thad was always welcome to join them as he was a great conversationalist and was funny.

As the meal progressed, Evin broke the silence “So Thad, tell us about your planet. It is certainly different from what we are used to on Earth. I feel certain that you are aware of the differences as you seem to know more about Earth sometimes than we do.”

Thad started, “Well, I guess I should have known that you would trap me into this conversation someday, so here it is. As you say on Earth, there is no such thing as a free meal. First, we are both a planet and a universe, as we have discovered no other planets in our universe. We have no way of measuring exactly, but we think our planet is at least 30 times larger than Earth. Like Earth it is relatively round and rotates completely once a day, but I don’t think we measure days the way you do. To us a day is one rotation of our planet.”

“Our sun is inside of our planet, with a great deal of insulation surrounding it with the exception of a few openings that lead to the surface and beyond on some of the mountains, one of which you see in the distance. The sun heats our planet from the inside, thus our relatively constant temperature. The sun’s rays go outward to the numerous stars that encircle our planet, many more than what you have on Earth. The stars absorb the rays and during the day reflect them back and bring light to the planet. Days are when the sun’s rays are directly hitting the stars. At night, when the sun’s rays are not directly hitting our stars, the stars maintain the light which they have stored and shine as stars do on Earth.”

“Our planet has its own rotation, and the sun inside seems to float in the center which radiates its heat and light constantly hitting various stars as the planet rotates. For example, on the back of our planet the days and nights we believe are opposite of ours on this side of the planet. We are not sure how many openings there in the mountains. You may notice that the daylight goes to nighttime gradually as the reflection changes. There is no sun up and no sun down so it is hard to notice this unless you are really paying attention. You may have noticed that the ground is a little warmer than the air temperature as the heat radiates from inside of our planet.”

“The thing we really miss is that we don’t have a moon.

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