[extropy-chat] reconciling the flat-earth "theory"

[Dan Clemmensen]

Robert Bradbury wrote:

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> On 2/9/06, *Dan Clemmensen* <dgc at cox.net <mailto:dgc at cox.net>> wrote:
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>     ...The renowned philosopher and cosmologist
>     Terry Pratchet has written extensively on this and related topics.
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> I've read some Pratchet and I don't recall discussions of flat v. 
> round Earth.
> Any hints?
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> R.

I was referring to the reality change, not to the flat earth itself. In 
"The Last Continent"
the continent, as the continent is being created, the new bits come into 
existence retroactively.

The "related matters" include Discworld itself (flat, but not square) 
and Prachet's
cyclical cosmology: The turtles all swim from a single birth point, reach
a maximum distance, and then return to the birth point for a cataclysmic 
mass mating
that Pratchet refers to as "the big bang."