Round the World

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From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Sun 12 Sep 1993 - 03:14:36 EEST


PAUL REILLY WRITES:
>2. Considering that Glorantha is flat, how far can someone see
> on the ocean?

> At last, a physics question! :-)= ( beard indicates Lhankor Mhy mode)
>Your question can perhaps best be answered by referring to the
>treatise "On the Properties of the Elements", by Clement Longhair of the
>Nochet Lhankor Mhy temple:

FROM THE NOCHET COLLECTANEA:
I Columbus Mercator shall not of course need to resort to rank insults to prove my argument, unlike my unworthy colleague Clement Longhair, whose beard (I am reliably informed) is held on with paste. I refer to my notes in Vol. XXIX of the Nochet Collectanea:

"The shape of the earth *must* be spherical.For every one of its parts has weight until it reaches the center, and thus when a smaller part is pressed upon by a larger, it cannot surge around it, but each is packed close to, and combines with, the other until the reach the center.

If particles are moving from all sides alike to one point, the center, the resulting mass must be similar on all sides for an equal quantity is added all round: the extremity must be at a constant distance from the center.

Such a shape is a sphere... further proof is obtained from the evidence of our senses: the world must have the shape its own shadow shows; for its perfectly circular outline produces eclipses of the Red Moon." I must therefore conclude that the true shape of the Earth Rune is  not in fact a square or cube, but a SPHERE!

In order to prove this I plan a great journey of circumnavigation around the world. Once I find an agreeable captain, the boat shall set sail from Nochet and travel east, only to appear at some indeterminate time in the west. Many sailors fear that they would sail off the edge of the world, despite my assurances. But when the ship undoubtedly appears again on the western horizon, its mast will be seen first, not because light "bends" as Clement Longhair would have it, but because the world is round, not flat!

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MOB
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