In a message dated 7/15/04 8:47:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time, ibrahim@aitacademy.edu.sg writes: > Is the world a sphere? Or flat? Or like something akin to Moorcock's > world of Elric, where the world ends at the receding borders of chaos? > > Given the role of the Dreaming in Qaiyore, do the same physical laws > apply as on Earth? It has been established that the world is (roughly) a sphere of essentially the same nature as Earth. Further, the situation on Qaiyore out to the orbit of the moons is basically the same as here. Beyond that I think we can assume that some interesting things are going on since the role of astronomy in Babylon, China, Tenocha, and others is not duplicated in any way on Qaiyore. Since the telescope or similar magic hasn't been developed the nature of the physical world beyond the moons hasn't been important to me. We know that _apparantly_ the physical laws are the same as ours. Personally, I think that differences are eventually going to appear, but we won't know what they are until someone gets a mythic success or failure on a research action. (Note the current absence of the scientific method however, which means that the current societies don't really know how to ask the right questions.) Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ PS If you have 16+ Fudge points to spare you can research a change in physics. I have some ideas . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
