(urth) Losing Imitation

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/30/2010 10:06 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Ryan Dunn: Is it possible that the passage in CotA about the "divine year" opens up a window
>> to the idea that all of these are the same planet in different universe cycles? Could this be a
>> product of recycling reestablished world building without reinventing it each time?
>> I have not read Long Sun so my question is more prodding than anything, but thought I would ask.
>
> I think it is worth asking. Tzadkiel's Ship seems to travel the length of the universe to get to
> its end and on to the higher one. I think most would agree the Whorl doesn't do this.
>
> My best conception of the Bang/Gnab universes is as an ascending coil or spiral (shape supported by
> Apheta's cave). This shape would actually allow a portal from one universe to the one just above or
> below to facilitate transport even more quickly and easily than driving the length of your own
> universe/coil. If you had the right mechanism.

My reading also supports this, though the gradual ascenscion of the 
Briah spiral may be very gradual, and not monotonically upward; some 
cosmic years may lose ground, leaving the Yesodis fretting to undo the 
tangle. Which they can, via the Corridors, though with much finer 
instruments than Tzadkiel's cyclopean Ship.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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