Typhon & Whorl

Pedro Pereira · 21 Dec 2007, 20:58 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: domus_artemis at hotmail.com (Pedro Pereira)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:58:44 +0200
Subject: (urth) Typhon & Whorl
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I do agree that wolfe is very well read comparing to the majority of writers these days. Still, he is not perfect and far as the geology part of things go, I find many inconsistencies. He may or may not know about the asteroid deficit. Maybe he was not sure and left it vague because of that. Or maybe he just assumed there was enough material. Or maybe he even didn't think about it because its not important and left it to the reader to come up with his own plausible explanation. What I think is, again, that he is not perfect and people cannot assume that he has though about every obscure detail that a specialist in any field of science could come up with.

As for the white hole/black hole thing, do you care to explain? I think things would be quite more complicated, based on black hole mass, white hole energy output and quite a lot of other highly technical intereaction details. It does not seem plausible to me that its just a mater of adding a white hole to a black hole in the center of the sun and voila, everything is back to normal. I'm just curious here.

Pedro> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:34:12 -0600> From: jwilson at io.com> To: urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) Typhon & Whorl> > >> > Also, people tend to try to find answers to legitimize their point of view> > in strict scientific views, like "the moon can't be so close to earth> > because of "this"", or "there's not enough asteroids in the asteroid belt> > to add significantly to mass of the moon to make it consistant with what> > we see in TBotNS", etc. Well, people are just assuming that Wolfe is> > super-human and knows everything about everything.> > Rather, we know that Wolfe is particularly well-read for a mortal. He may> very well know about the asteroid deficit, which would explain why he> doesn't offer it (or anything else) as an explanation for Lune's gravity.> > > He makes mistakes, and> > from my geologists point of view, I see many inconsistencies. People> > forget things like that you cannot add a white hole to a black hole, like> > in -1+1=0 and that reverts everything back to "normal."> > Actually, that part turns out to be correct.> > _______________________________________________> Urth Mailing List> To post, write urth at urth.net> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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