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[brodie]

[DavFlamerock]

That's what I was thinking, but I had no way of knowing where the equator/prime meridian were on the other worlds. Hence the general confusion. :/

[Lysithea]

[AUZ505]

[unagi]

Iberia in Early Jurassic Pangaea
http://www.mantleplumes.org/CAMP.html
Of cource nobody knows whether the Pangaea in parallel worlds corresponds to this Pangaea.

[Lysithea]

Has anyone made much progress on plotting the two sets of postcard locations on all the different world types? (with the exception of Madrid and Warren)

[meta]I don't particularly like this puzzle, which is why I haven't been posting about it much. It doesn't seem to correspond well to spherical planets.[/meta]

The pdf does explain itself pretty well, but I get the impression that as a group, there is uncertainty about how to accomplish the next step.

[unagi]

[AUZ505]

I have made a small "tool" that could help to put "madrid/warren" on the different worlds. It is not really a tool. It is just a word doc with screenshots and predefined "madrid/warren" pairs with the distance of the coordiantes from the postcards.

So you can now try to put for each world a "madrid/warren" pair onto the continents. I hope it will work, because I know Word somtimes mix up documents on other computers.
Remark: Do not change the size of the pairs (just rotation and translation allowed)

Problems I still have:
1) Only one "long distance" pair --> probably Nuna
2) But what is with Kondorland? Is Madrid still in the ocean?
3) 4 almost similar distances. How can they be assigned?

At the moment I have not idea how to proceed?

[EDIT] I alread tried to put some pairs into the world - but these are wild guesses

[danteIL]

AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!


I'm just not getting it. Something is fundamentally wrong in my understanding of what we are supposed to do here.

The maps are stupid. Pan-cosmology is stupid. I am stupid.

[Lysithea]

[AUZ505]

[Weezel]

I don't understand why there is all the rotating of the land masses either. The default locations of the layers seem to match with all the images and articles I've read on supercontinents. None of them seem to indicate that they rotated to.

Once thing to consider with the markups of the Gaea land against the other land is that there is 'extra' land between the continents. So you can't come the same distance from the edges, you have to trow away the extra land sitting between them.

The whole thing is just driving me a little batty, even trying to get a handle on the logistics of it. Why are the cities in the other worlds even named the same thing as ours...

[thebruce]

well again, this is still my theory - the city names are all on our world, there's no reason to think that these are city names shared among all the alternate realities. What I mean is, these are places listed on our world, but each of places matches matches the same 'place' on each of the worlds.

If, say, we're looking for City A (that spot of the continent for each of the worlds), then that spot on the continent would be where City B, or City C, etc are on our world. If we run a labyrinth at each location on our world, the latitude longitude of each of those locations would point to a spot on other worlds' continents that, were we to align the continents with ours, would all be at the same point on the same continent.

The maps of the other worlds are very, very rough, so certainly we can't be exact in placement, but I think in a way, a solve would be to say we're looking for Warren's location on each world - the other locations on that postcard should match up to location of warren (it's placement on the continent - doesn't matter if that placeis called warren or not) in the other worlds.

So the point about matching distances that's being made, is that since we have two postcards, we have to 'legends' to help ensure accuracy.
We can guess continental positioning for the each location o a postcard, but there's no 'check'. If we assume postcard 1 location 2 is world B, then give that continental orientation, there should be a location on postcard 2 that also matches. If there are, then chances are that continental orientation is valid.

Now this assumes that each continental map diagram uses the same size parameters (mapping style), and it would mean that we'valigned the maps to our continental orientation - not necesarily to each other's. But I think that's the point anyway - so we can run our labyrinths, and synchronize to them.

I dunno, with the addition of this multiverse registrry now, it seems we may have to coordinate labyrinth runs with the other worlds... *sigh* it's just so vague and confusing still at this point.
Certainly more chapters will help clarify anyway.

[Weezel]

[danteIL]

Just going by the postcards, they both say "We are here.. and here... and here... and here.. and here," which to me suggests (as per brodie) that they are intended to suggest that "We are here in Madrid in this world" and in another world Madrid is "here" and in yet another world Madrid is "here" etc.

So while the numerical coordinates map onto our world, they simply mark the places where synchronization has to take place in order to sync with "Madrid" in these other worlds. That is the source of the reasoning behind trying to identify the locations of Madrid (and Warren) in the other 5 maps.

AUZ505 has the right start, I guess, in trying to find a Madrid-Warren pair in each other world that corresponds to one of the postcard-pairs. There is too much uncertainty in the locations, though, to make it work (for me at least).

I encourage others to add/modify the wiki page that I started: http://olympics.wikibruce.com/PanCosmologizer



A direct appeal to the PMs: Please add a way to place markers directly on the PanCosmologizer!!