>"Jeffrey Kaplan"  wrote in message    
   > >news:sp40a61tme1606oopbgdsojquotgh9hfo6@gordol.org...   
   >Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, John W. Kennedy said:   
   >   
   >> On Sep 25, 1:02 am, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:   
   >> > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, John W. Kennedy said:   
   >> >   
   >> > > I have always rather assumed that the Sheridan-Lorien scenes on   
   >> > > Z'ha'dum were taking place in Sheridan's head as he fell.   
   >> >   
   >> > Except for the fact that several days or weeks had passed elsewhere   
   >> > between the big BOOM! and his return to B5.   
   >> >   
   >> > Time enough for Ivonova to grieve, make a round trip, and then put out   
   >> > a call for ships and wait days for them to arrive.   
   >>   
   >> So? The PERT chart works.   
   >   
   >Unless he's falling into a planet like Jupiter, it'd take orders of   
   >magnitude less time to fall than it took Ivonova to grieve, etc.  But   
   >he wasn't.  By what we see on-screen, Z'Ha'Dum must have a gravity   
   >within tolerance-difference of Earth, and the atmosphere within the   
   >city dome is breathable by Humans and thus must be composed of gasses   
   >of similar densities.   
   >   
   >Ergo, terminal velocity there is close to that here, and it would take   
   >only minutes to fall 2 kilometers, not days or weeks.   
   >   
   >I wasn't questioning whether or not Ivonova went through grieving   
   >stages, nor whether or not Lorien was communicating with Sheridan   
   >telepathically.  Just the timing.   
      
   If the hole was deep enough then the force of gravity would reduce   
   as you approached the center of the planet.  With air friction he would   
   slow to a hover at some point.   
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