Field guide No. 748
The sideways forest meeting
Two forests, different gravity.
At the edge of a meadow, an ordinary forest meets a cliff whose trees grow straight out sideways, trunks level with the ground. Each thinks the other is lying down.
Field noteTrees grow away from the ground they stand in. These stand in a wall and grow level, as if down were east.
- Specimen
- No. 748
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A meadow at the foot of a wooded cliff.
- Nearest existing relative
- An oak wood.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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Flames within the icebergA fire inside ice that doesn’t melt it is both hot and not hot at the same place.
Open orchard door, floating hardwareIts handle and lock still hang where the shut door would be, while the door itself stands wide open beside them.
Floating safe, sinking wood and corkA metal safe floats while wood and cork sink below it. The usual buoyancy rules have switched sides.