From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 21:03:13 MDT
On Thursday, July 04, 2002 9:14 PM Damien Broderick
d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> < 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.
Thanks Damien. Now that novel finally makes sense!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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