[Nyarlathotep] Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacifi c

[lev at rpgreview.net]

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/31/2221247/physicist-explains-cthulhus-non-euclidean-geometry

Mathematician Benjamin K. Tippett has written a fascinating and deadpan
paper giving insights into Cthulhu. A 'Bubble' of warped Space-Time makes
alarmingly consistent sense of the dead God's cyclopean city under the
sea.

Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific
Benjamin K. Tippett
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3
Canada

http://titaniumphysicists.brachiolopemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Rlyeh.pdf

In 1928, the late Francis Wayland Thurston published a scandalous
manuscript in purport of warning the world of a global conspiracy of
occultists. Among the documents he gathered to support his thesis was the
personal account of a sailor by the name of Gustaf Johansen, describing
an encounter with an extraordinary island. Johansen’s descriptions of his
adventures upon the island are fantastic, and are often considered the
most enigmatic (and therefore the highlight) of Thurston’s collection of
documents.

We contend that all of the credible phenomena which Johansen described may
be explained as being the observable consequences of a localized bubble of
spacetime curvature. Many of his most incomprehensible statements
(involving the geometry of the architecture, and variability of the
location of the horizon) can therefore be said to have a unified
underlying
cause.

We propose a simplified example of such a geometry, and show using
numerical
computation that Johansen’s descriptions were, for the most part, not
simply the ravings of a lunatic. Rather, they are the nontechnical
observations of an intelligent man who did not understand how to describe
what he was seeing. Conversely, it seems to us improbable that Johansen
should have unwittingly given such a precise description of the
consequences of spacetime curvature, if the details of this story were
merely the dregs of some half remembered fever dream.

We calculate the type of matter which would be required to generate such
exotic spacetime curvature. Unfortunately, we determine that the required
matter is quite unphysical, and possess a nature which is entirely alien
to all of the experiences of human science. Indeed, any civilization with
mastery over such matter would be able to construct warp drives, cloaking
devices, and other exotic geometries required to conveniently travel
through the cosmos.