How would you achieve a 48 hour day? Or just ~48.*** hours. I'm writing a book that takes place on another planet. I've had trouble coming up with ways to get this, without disturbing an "Earthly equilibrium." Well, more of I'm not sure IF these things would disturb anything. I assume they would. These were my theories(being bigger than Earth is also a +):
If the planet was twice the size of Earth, maintaining the same speed of rotation. By the same speed of rotation, I guess I more mean that the exterior of the planet was to travel at the same speed as Earth's exterior, more or less making the axis spin at a slower rate. And, besides the theoretical complications of the planet collapsing into itself and its life span being dramatically shortened, how would this affect things like the weather and tides? And to maintain a Semi-Earthly relationship with the moon, would the distances and rotations and sizes of the sun(more or less) and the moon have to be proportionately changed?
Okay I guess this was my only "theory." Sooooo....(Note I wrote this next paragraph before the above theory)
So now I ask if these would achieve it, their complications, as well as other ways to do this with more/less complications. Obviously this is all theoretical, and any sources, reading you can offer would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
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