(urth) Problematic element in chronology

[Jeff Wilson]

On 6/2/2011 2:36 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Eeeeeyeah, but . The calculations below don't take dilation into
> account. I'm just sayin'.

I'm assuming acceleration remains constant wrt internal Whorl time, on 
the entirely unfounded assumption that the Whorl's acceration is based 
on some internal principle. I suppose they could be catching waves on 
the unseen surf Severian's tender bobs on. This is an area where I would 
have to defer to Gerry, but I'm pretty sure that viewed externally, 
acceleration would drop off and time dilation would increase over the 
external time to prevent acceleration past the speed of light from being 
observed.  There problem for me is that length contraction also comes 
into play and that's always a pain to account for.

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