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Sergei SOLOVIEV · 02 Nov 2011, 17:05 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: soloviev at irit.fr (Sergei SOLOVIEV)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:05:59 +0100
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In fact, while "artistic illusion" in BoTNS (or coherence of details) is 
extraordinary,
it is not perfect, and I don't think we should try to get all 
"scientific" consequences.

One illustration: it is said that the flyer of the autarch is naturally 
afloat by
anti-gravity, and that it is created by some amount of antimatter. 
(Explanation
that the autarch gives to Severian. It is kept by ropes before flight.)
Does repulsive or attractive
force exist between matter and antimatter is not clear
for our science (I think the experiments concerning the reaction of 
antimatter
to gravitational field are only planned). Let us take this as an assumption
(author's right). But... But antimatter violently reacts
with matter. Of course inside the flyer it may be kept isolated (for
example, by magnetic fields etc.). But after the flyer is hit, it fells. 
What
happened with antimatter and buoyancy? If it was lost, where was the 
explosion?
(Many megatons at least.)

I think, the same is with this idea of black hole inside the sun.
(Description is merely not correct.)
Black hole sucks violently matter into it. Its mass grows, its sucks
more quickly. The process is exponentially accelerating. The idea
of slow death of the sun doesn't work. (In fact, core collapse in
supernovae takes fractions of seconds.)

But maybe Gene Wolfe didn't verify it scientifically.

Sergei

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> But the question it does beg to me seems to be that of why the Sun is dying.
>> In 20,000 years, it wouldn't burn out naturally, right? And if it was
>> artificial, then who/why? That seems to be the real issue of the time lag,
>> and I think it's been hashed out here before.
>>     
>
> We know that the Sun is not dying naturally, that a black hole has
> been planted in it. But I believe that a few thousand years would be
> too short a time for _that_ to make the described difference...though
> Typhon says that it's happening faster than predicted, so current
> theory is of relatively little value here.
>
>

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