Urgent Correction

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 19:14:14 MDT


A pal writes:

< Greg Egan has a vital correction to his novel _Diaspora_,
whose 17th chapter laughably refers to `Poincare's rotational "pole" --
the two-dimensional sphere on the hypersurface that stayed fixed in space
as the star rotated.' The author's website warns that this is in fact an
unlikely situation in 5-dimensional space, and that it's more probable
that there would be `two single-point rotational poles, as in 3
dimensions.' >

I knew you'll all want this news rushed to the list as swiftly as possible.

Damien Broderick



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