I'm also curious as to whether you observed this happening at a measurable rate?
[Viktor, from somewhere off to the side, raises his hand like he's in a lecture hall. He's soft spoken, generally, though he seems to be making some effort to raise his voice and interject. These people need some physics.]
It's not out of the question that the Singularity is, in fact, slowly moving the continent around it, given the nature of it as an entity. I would be interested in studying the phenomenon more closely. However, a cosmic body with enough mass will do the same by sheer force of its gravitational pull.
[What's important is how fast it's happening. It may be so slow, and inevitable that it's not worth concerning themselves with it, to say nothing of actively attempting to tamper with the Singularity.]
All stars, even the one that lights this world, will eventually expand to swallow everything in their path, before reaching a limit and imploding. But the process is so slow--millions or even billions of years--that drastic action to prevent it is functionally useless. It simply operates on an entirely different scale.
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[Viktor, from somewhere off to the side, raises his hand like he's in a lecture hall. He's soft spoken, generally, though he seems to be making some effort to raise his voice and interject. These people need some physics.]
It's not out of the question that the Singularity is, in fact, slowly moving the continent around it, given the nature of it as an entity. I would be interested in studying the phenomenon more closely. However, a cosmic body with enough mass will do the same by sheer force of its gravitational pull.
[What's important is how fast it's happening. It may be so slow, and inevitable that it's not worth concerning themselves with it, to say nothing of actively attempting to tamper with the Singularity.]
All stars, even the one that lights this world, will eventually expand to swallow everything in their path, before reaching a limit and imploding. But the process is so slow--millions or even billions of years--that drastic action to prevent it is functionally useless. It simply operates on an entirely different scale.