Beyond the zero

[David Morris]

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On Friday, February 28, 2014, 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<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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