(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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