From:	keith@***********.com (Keith Johnson)
Subject:	Physics and Realism in SR (and other games)
Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:59:13 -0700

> Back to the topic: all this philosophy is very interesting,
> but I think it might be making mountains out of muons. The
> initial question wasn't a true physics problem; it was "How
> did that piece of California fall into the ocean when there
> isn't a fault line there?"

Back to my explanation as it stands...

In which universe is there no fault line there?

If the guys who designed the universe decided to split
California there and they decided to say that it's because
of a fault line rupture that caused exactly the result that
happens in the game... then in that universe two things are
true:

1 there is a fault line there

and

2 earthquakes and plate shifting can and did cause exaclty
what we see in the map.

My point is that the Shadowrun universe isn't this
universe. Get over it.

<yoda>
you must unlearn what you have learned
</yoda>


-k