Re: - Flow Question

In the three SJ DM's that I work with, including myself we all agree that the flow is not 2D.

Imagine a cottonball.  At the intersections of the cottonball fibers you
would have a sphere.  Some of the strands are one way and others are two
ways.  you would need a flow map to know the difference, you can get off
of a strand in the flow, but your time to destination would dramatically
increase, to the point that you may run out of food.

If you have any comments on this I would like to hear them.

     I've been working on a 3-D concept for the flow that works something 
     like this:
     
     The 'flow is indeed (by all appearances) essentially 2-d, though with 
     a finite thickness, AT LEAST thick enough to completely engulf even 
     the largest Sphere.

     However, unbeknownst to the poor inhabitants, the ENTIRE universe is 
     actually stretched about a HUGE Spherical shape [...]
        That's a wild concept... I like it.  :)
       Perhaps Archimedes and Terrigimar the Space-Lich should compare notes.
        Incidently, the largest sphere I ever created was Darraspace, also
known as Helliconiaspace.  It's roughly three light-years in diameter.
Anyone ever go bigger?  I'm just curious.

        Pack to the above flow idea.  I always pictured the spheres as
drifting in large clusters or groups (called galaxies) that from outside
would resemble a huge water world; the flow behaves the same way as the
water.  Think of a blueberry pancake.  The flow is the starchy part, while
the blueberries are the spheres.  (Using a thick pancake, and small
blueberries that can be completely surrounded by the starch). 
        That's sort of what Archimedes says above, actually.
        Perhaps these "pancakes" drift around the surface of this "hyper
sphere?"  Sort of like lilly-pads on gigantic pond?  No one is known to have
ever moved from one lilly-pad to another, never mind into the hypersphere.


Richard