Problematic element in chronology

James Wynn · 31 May 2011, 15:30 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:30:50 -0500
Subject: (urth) Problematic element in chronology
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Perhaps the only the Rajan could see the light of Sol's sun. He was only 
asking the others to imagine it. Perhaps he wasn't seeing it with human 
eyes. Just sayin'.

There was a discussion on this list between Mantis and (I think) Jerry 
Friedman some years ago about the distance between Urth and Blue based 
on 350 years of travel, 500 years of travel, 1000 years of travel.

Don't we know (based on the vase Lemur destroyed) that they've been in 
transport for just over 500 years? Assuming this all occurs during the 
time of Severian's childhood., that just suggests an overall time 
dilation of 2, right? That's fast, mind-blowingly fast, but not 
impossibly fast.

J.

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