Godling size

James Jordan · 19 Apr 2001, 11:18 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>
Subject: (whorl) Godling size
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:18:52
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At 08:53 AM 4/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>I thought the main objection to the godlings is that in Act 1 (New Sun)
>the author goes into detail about why anything that big would have to live
>in the sea or collapse under its own weight and then in Act 3 he presents
>us with such a creature without giving us any hint of how it is possible,
>or even a sense that we're supposed to see this as a physics-defying
>miracle
>
>-Rostrum

         The gravity on the whorl is caused by centrifugal force. It is=20
possible that the higher up you go, the less gravity there is? And how high=20
up do you have to go? Is it possible that the large godling can exist=20
because of this? I doubt if this is good enough, but maybe one of your more=20
scientific types can address this.

Nutria


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