Maybe Paolini meant fourth year as in fourth grade? As in, 9 to 10 year old students? Subtly implying that knowledge has progressed so far that young kids are taught basic physics in school.
But maybe that's giving him too much credit. After all, nothing else about civilisation seems to have progressed in the intervening 250 years.
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Maybe Paolini meant fourth year as in fourth grade? As in, 9 to 10 year old students? Subtly implying that knowledge has progressed so far that young kids are taught basic physics in school.
But maybe that's giving him too much credit. After all, nothing else about civilisation seems to have progressed in the intervening 250 years.