(urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"
Jerry Friedman
jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 9 07:57:16 PDT 2013
> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com>
> On Mon, September 9, 2013 00:19, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> Seems reasonable. It's certainly not from increased solar flux.
> However,
>> that would be a LOT of energy. I'd wonder whether anybody at all could
>> survive.
>
> Indeed, the Yesodis don't expect them to survive, which is why they settle
> the renewed earth with new people.
Good point.
>> I think that a black hole, even as currently understood, would cool the
>> sun if it were significantly cooler than the temperature of the interior
>> of the sun. You can have some fun at
> <http://xaonon.dyndns.org/hawking/>.
>
> It's really not fair to hold Wolfe to the standards of another 3-4 decades
> of theoretical physics.
That's why I said "even as currently understood". I was just thinking about
what might happen with current physics, as I take it Gerry was too, not holding
Wolfe to anything.
> We no longer have the expectation of transcending
> space and dimension as when the Book was being written.
I don't remember that we did then--did we?
>> Wait, I thought the black beans grew into the sea monsters, which is why
>> the woman had to throw them into the sea (instead of just dropping them on
>> the ground) to make them effective. Robert Borski speculated along these
>> lines.
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=HykyT4UQ9JMC&pg=PA93
>>
>> Anyway, it would make literary sense if whoever or whatever made the sun
>> cool also stopped plate tectonics (if it's stopped), and if the process
>> that fixed one also fixed the other.
>
> I think it's a stretch when she throws them on the *sun*'s grave.
I'm not following. What's a stretch? What's the sun's grave?
Jerry Friedman
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