On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alexx Kay wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sean Whalen wrote: > > > > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > I don't know. Wouldn't the flowing water enter the chaos and never come > > > out? > > > > As I've mentioned recently, the physics of amorphia is beyond me. Does > > the wind that blows upon it get, well, vaporized? The ground it rests > > upon dissolved? > > Well, if wind blowing into the sea was vaporized, then I think that the > planetary ecology would have a lot more to worry about then the Jenoine. > > While I am uncertain about the exact details, it seems to me that whatever > the gods did to the Greater (and later the Lesser) Sea of Chaos must have > put into a close approximation of a "stable" state. That is, if it is > destroying things still, there must be some balancing, creative force. > > The strongest evidence for this view is simply that the ecosystem is still > intact hundreds of millenia after the Greater Sea was formed. Additional > evidence is Aliera's suggestion that it is possible to "bath" in it -- > without being consumed. I was asking those questions to suggest the conclusions you reach above. Note though that Aliera isn't a good example - she has a special relationship to amorhpia.