How do you stop a planet's natural rotation through the universe?!
There is something uniquely amazing about the universe we live in. The way it operates in such perfect randomness, simultaneously creating and destroying itself without any regard to it's very existence...it just IS. Entire planets and, indeed, entire galaxies are forever hurling around, through and within each other. Days & seasons come & go. Even the atoms and molecules that make up our physical being are always moving in a pattern of natural rotation. Occasionally, a planet (or being) will find itself hurling through it's space on a path of direct collision with another planet (or being). What is either of these planets to do?! Does an asteroid see a moon in it's path & decide to go around it to avoid destruction? Of course not..it goes hurling on it's path of natural flow and smashes into the moon, being shattered into millions of pieces. And what of the moon? It just spins along on it's path and gets struck. This collision inevitably creates a s...