Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:59:53 -0800
From: Michael Andre-Driussi 
Subject: RE: (urth) probable distance from Urth to Bleen

Crush wrote:
>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,

Hmmm.  The text is pretty clear that the Objective Time has been 1000 years
(LS3, ch 6, p. 242) and the Subjective Time has been 332 years (date on
letters).

If we assume that the Whorl has been in a parking orbit for 100 years (as
per Pas's time (LS2, ch 9, p. 235), then those 100 years are taken out of
the equation since, by definition, they pass in real time.  That is to say,
Objective Time for the voyage is 900 years and Subjective Time is 230.

The time between the reign of Ymar and that of Severian is said to be a
chiliad.  So the Whorl arrived at the Bleen system about 30 years before
Autarch Maruthas closed the roads of the Commonwealth.

Or perhaps I'm missing your point?

The A model (.97 c):
>             OBJECTIVE   SUBJECTIVE
>LEG    RATE    TIME        TIME        DISTANCE
>Boost  0.1 g   10 years     8 years      0.5 light years
>Glide  0 g    880 years   214 years    853.6 light years
>Boost  0.1 g   10 years     8 years      0.5 light years
>===
>TOTAL         900 years   230 years    854.6 light years


The B model (.98 c):
>               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

=mantis=



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