Re: OT: The Geography Of A Discworld and the surrounding universe.
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 8, 2002, 16:52 |
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:43:21AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
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> ours. At this point, you basically have complete fiat. You can say that your
> discworld rests on the backs of four elephants that are being carried on the
> back of a giant turtle, and we'd all go, "Sure, ok, whatever you say."
> Physics discussions, alas, are out of the question.
Unless you have a set of consistent physical laws that apply in that
fictional universe. It doesn't *have* to be giant turtles just because it
contradicts one or two laws in our universe; there's nothing wrong with
having slightly different laws of physics that would allow such phenomena,
and yet still be quite similar to our world.
T
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