Beyond the zero

[alice malice]

If you could get up high enough in the sky, then you'd see that some
rainbows continue below the horizon. That's because when the sun and
rain combine to make a rainbow, they really make a full-circle
rainbow. We can't see all of the circle, because the horizon blocks it
from our view. Pilots high in the sky do sometimes report seeing
genuine full-circle rainbows.



http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-optical-illusions.htm

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking of an upside down parabola that comes from negative inf
> on x and y whose vertex has a pos y value and therefore 2 roots so "beyond
> the zero" is infinity. You could also say negative infinity. In real life
> rockets go up and down in a parabola but they start and end at the surface
> of the earth. If you fire a rocket with a sufficient angle and speed then,
> like pirate and the gang from the beginning of the book, you won't hear an
> explosion because it would be falling indefinitely. Not that that's what's
> going on in the book.
>
> I should probably finish it first then think about all this
>
> On Feb 27, 2014 8:57 PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You already knew the answer, of course. But remember the graph as it
>> continues on and on beyond the zero, over and over.
>>
>> On Thursday, February 27, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If the zero is the x horizon, and the trajectory starts at zero, when the
>>> path returns to zero, where does the math take it next?  The answer should
>>> be obvious.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2014, Doc Sportello <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm only 20 pages in but I wanted to let it be known that I've begun,
>>>> which is not to say I'll finish, GR. I've been told that the title, among
>>>> countless other things, alludes to the trajectory of a rocket and the novel
>>>> itself. The "Beyond the Zero" epigraph to me invokes a graph of a negative
>>>> parabola that has two roots or zeros (I have a bachelors in Applied Math but
>>>> you don't need one to solve a polynomial). Anyway the von Braun quote brings
>>>> up the fact that the parabola doesn't end at the zeros but goes on to
>>>> infinity and it reminded me of Saturn via Keats "There is no death in all
>>>> the universe"
>>>>
>>>> Anyhooz I'm sure you all have discussed it to death (there is no
>>>> death...) but to keep myself motivated I'll update you as I move along
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