From: "James Wynn" 
Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:19:19 -0600

Nice caluculations Mantis, however if one insists that Silk's Time coexists
with Severian's Time then these numbers won't do. Wolfe puts Severian's time
1000 to 2000 years after Typhon's.

Just nit-picking,

Crush

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Andre-Driussi [mailto:mantis@siriusfiction.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:47 PM
To: urth@urth.net
Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen

Blattid wants new numbers.  Okay!  A 10:1 time dilation suggests somewhere
between .98 c and .99 c, I reckon.

               OBJECTIVE   SUBJECTIVE
LEG    RATE      TIME         TIME      DISTANCE
Boost  0.01 g  100 years    80 years      0.5 light years
Glide  0 g     700 years    70 years    686.0 light years
Boost  0.01 g  100 years    80 years      0.5 light years
===
TOTAL          900 years   230 years    687.0 light years


>... I tend to think that the _Whorl_ most likely has a boost of
><< 1 G -- probably .01G or so. Reasoning: the Cargo know enough
>about the skew of gravity that they can discuss, in fairly learned
>terms, the way it affects the behavior of GEVs going too fast in
>an antispinward direction. If the ship decelerated at any
>appreciable fraction of G, then floater drivers -- at least those
>who occasionally drive fast -- would notice that the "central"
>direction for getting into a plow had shifted. O'course, if that
>happened nearly a century ago, they _could_ all have forgotten it
>by Silk's time ... More generally, though, I suspect people would
>remember (certainly the chems would) a time when things fell a bit
>differently...

=mantis=



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