Merryn and Triskele

Adam Thornton · 06 Apr 2006, 04:13 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:13:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Merryn and Triskele
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On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:54 PM, <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com>  
<thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:35:54 +1000 Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
> <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/5/06, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Quite a lot more time than a week must separate Silk's visit to
>>> Urth
>>> from Dorp (RTTW Ch 13) & his final visit from New Viron (Ch 19).
>>
>> Is it clear that more than a week passes _for Sev_? I ask because
>> we know that at least some of the Narrator's astral travels are
>> also
>> travels in time...
>
> Do we know that? Not denying it, but I don't recall anything which
> suggests time travelling.

I'm deeply suspicious that the accelerations allowable in the Whorl  
(without the lakes sloshing all over everywhere, etc) would give you  
sufficient relativistic compression to make a thousand-year journey  
only last 300.  Michael Andre-Driussi and I have batted this one  
around a little, and the question comes down to, "how fast can the  
Whorl accelerate."

So, uh, SilkHorn would seem to be going into the *future*.  Not  
merely outside the light cone, but into the future even if there IS a  
Universal Time (me, I don't see what's wrong with regarding the  
comoving frame as Really At Rest and thereby declaring time, relative  
to the comoving frame, to be Real Time, and applying relativistic  
shrinkage to everything else).

Adam

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