(TFT) The shape of Cidri

[Scott Haley <someotherwag@earthlink.net>]

I thought of a way that Cidri could have vastly greater surface area  
than the Earth while still having about one gee of gravity.  I  
picture Cidri as a great sphere with a ball of anti-gravity material  
in the center.  The ball pushes matter away instead of attracting it  
as regular matter does.  Standing on the surface of Cidri, the "down"  
vector of Cidri's gravity minus the "up" vector from the anti-gravity  
ball cancels out to an earth-like gravity field.  At the core of  
Cidri, the repelling field created by the ball would make a hollow  
space, with the ball floating in the center of that.  In Cidri's  
core, the ball makes things fall up towards the surface, so there may  
be people walking around on the inside surface of Cidri.

Maybe the presence of this big chunk of exotic matter is what makes  
magic possible on Cidri.

--Scott
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