Merryn and Triskele

Jeff Wilson · 06 Apr 2006, 04:29 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:29:27 -0500
Subject: (urth) Merryn and Triskele
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Adam Thornton wrote:
> 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).

Shrinkage works both ways, but when frames are brought back to relative 
rest, the one that has experienced greater acceleration has experienced 
less duration. However, I don't think GW really believes in relativity, 
or at least it doesn't have physical meaning in the New Sun books, and 
by extension, the Long and Short Suns.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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