ErikH2000 wrote:
agaricus5 wrote:
I thought you said things implode as you go towards the centre and explode as you go outward towards the rim.
If you go south from the southern border, you are squeezed into the tiny northern point.
No change in your density occurs moving from north to south or south to north.
-Erik
How oxymoronic!
Being squeezed increases your density if your volume decreases (Unless, of course, your mass moves out into another dimension which will then be rather difficult to visualise).
This is therefore what I visualise about the Eighth, then:
1. The centre of the "
sun"
and anything along that line of height (Since the Eighth is more like a disc than a sphere) is actually distributed equally along the outer rim of the disc and there is an infinitely small vacuum along the "
centre"
line where all the mass there is actually along the outer rim of the disc.
2. If one manages to fire something at high velocity towards the rim along the bisector of the "
pie slice"
it is on, ignoring gravity and air resistance, the object will slowly expand as it nears the rim. At the rim, it will have expanded to fill the entire 1/8 circumference of the slice and will form a complete ring around the "
pie"
momentarily with its 7 other counterparts. The object then moves to the centre of the pie and is fired outwards, and assuming it does not melt/vapourize, will continue going outwards, eventually to complete a full circle/line and come back to the point at which it originated.
Is this right?
Edit: Improving post quality.
[Edited by agaricus5 at
Local Time:11-15-2004 at 01:13 AM]
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