As for who cares, perhaps Wolfe does. <br>A theme of his is natural explanations for the supernatural, such as the magic of Devil in the Forest, or the mystery of the Pelerine cathedral in BotNS.<br>I contend that the feasibility of the flood is a deliberate puzzle. The event that is the culmination of the whole byzantine process is not something to be hand-waved away by scifi pseudoscience in a book this serious. I think it's purposely something that
<span style="font-style: italic;">cannot</span> be explained by physics in an endogenous system, but should be explained nonetheless.<br><br>P<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There's this white hole moving through the solar system, see, before it<br>hits the Old Sun. It's stellar sized gravity well causes the changes on<br>Urth.<br><br>Who knows (or cares, particularly) if the physics is right?
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