(urth) Merryn and Triskele

Adam Thornton adam at io.com
Wed Apr 5 22:25:40 PDT 2006


On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:20 AM, <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> wrote:
> Seems to me you can get that compression with something less than
> 0.01g, if your magic space-engine gives you constant boost up to
> 0.95c or beyond. Or no? But anyway I have no idea how noticeable
> 0.01g would be; would you get sloshing etc?

A 1% grade is certainly enough to ensure you don't, say, put a ball  
down on a shelf.  And there's no indication in the Whorl that you  
have to build things on slopes to counteract the effects of  
acceleration.  I was figuring a thousandth of a G would be more  
reasonable.  But on the other hand....we really have no idea how the  
Whorl is powered, do we?

Of course one could say that of course Wolfe doesn't believe in  
relativity inasmuch as spacetime is a static rather than a dynamic  
concept, which does not appear to allow for free will.  Put another  
way, free will is a refutation of the notion that time is essentially  
spacelike.

Adam



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