Sigh

Jeff Wilson · 12 Jan 2011, 02:01 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:01:43 -0600
Subject: (urth) Sigh
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On 1/11/2011 7:34 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>
>> Antonio:>  Space-time is a strange place. Observers may be looking at their own
>> star system far, far away.
>
>> Jeff: When else do we see this happen?
>
> I'd say we see something sort of similar when Severian is about to enter Yesod.
> Because of the curvature of space-time (as Malrubius explained) he sees both the
> beginning and the end of the universe in the same place.

Perhaps, but this only allows bi-location of objects with lifetimes 
nearly that of an entire manvantara, at least trillions of years, while 
moving faster than light somehow. Blue and Green's system doesn't do 
this, nor would it last as long.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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