On Sep 26, 11:50 pm, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:
> Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, John W. Kennedy said:
>
> > On Sep 25, 1:02 am, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:
> > > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, John W. Kennedy said:
>
> > > > I have always rather assumed that the Sheridan-Lorien scenes on
> > > > Z'ha'dum were taking place in Sheridan's head as he fell.
>
> > > Except for the fact that several days or weeks had passed elsewhere
> > > between the big BOOM! and his return to B5.
>
> > > Time enough for Ivonova to grieve, make a round trip, and then put out
> > > a call for ships and wait days for them to arrive.
>
> > So? The PERT chart works.
>
> Unless he's falling into a planet like Jupiter, it'd take orders of
> magnitude less time to fall than it took Ivonova to grieve, etc.  But
> he wasn't.  By what we see on-screen, Z'Ha'Dum must have a gravity
> within tolerance-difference of Earth, and the atmosphere within the
> city dome is breathable by Humans and thus must be composed of gasses
> of similar densities.
>
> Ergo, terminal velocity there is close to that here, and it would take
> only minutes to fall 2 kilometers, not days or weeks.
>
> I wasn't questioning whether or not Ivonova went through grieving
> stages, nor whether or not Lorien was communicating with Sheridan
> telepathically.  Just the timing.
But you are assuming that both timelines are synchronous, and that
subjective experience runs at sixty seconds per minute; neither
assumption is guaranteed. If we merely examine known synchronized
points, all the before-and-after lines still work just as well my way,
and my way doesn't require the suggestion that Lorien is capable of
Godlike manipulation of time and reality.
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