Category Archives: SFF Thought Starters

Feb 02

Scientific progress goes boink.

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Scientific progress goes boink.

I don’t understand enough quantum physics to make out what the implications are of these discoveries, but hardly anyone does, so I’m sure you could mine them for handwavium.

It might end up resembling the work of Rudy Rucker if you’re not careful, though.

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You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird: Check out Entangled Time http://suhub.co/2GGndlf

Feb 02

I’ve thought for a while that pulsars would make good navigation beacons. And it appears that they do.

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I’ve thought for a while that pulsars would make good navigation beacons. And it appears that they do.

You can still get your ship’s crew lost in space, of course. Just have the pulsar detector break down, or its database get corrupted.

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This ‘Cosmic GPS’ Tech Will Help Us Explore the Furthest Reaches of Space http://suhub.co/2GEtkXx

Feb 01

So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly…

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So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly remarkable stuff.

Their recipes were encoded in symbolism, which makes them a challenge to reconstruct. (I have a Gryphon Clerks novel planned in which the instructions for making a kind of bioengineered polymer are encoded in Elvish poetry.)

Via a private share off G+.

http://wapo.st/2DLrc2e?tid=ss_gp&utm_term=.491d09cc0b0f