tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post7854719050227812314..comments2024-01-08T09:12:42.920-05:00Comments on SF and Nonsense: Getting physicalEdward M. Lernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-64370577001901969892015-10-07T10:33:25.755-04:002015-10-07T10:33:25.755-04:00Hi Keith,
Without disagreeing with your speculati...Hi Keith,<br /><br />Without disagreeing with your speculations, all are (to my knowledge) beyond any experiment ever performed. Moreover, extra dimensions, a la string theory, and the nature of dark energy, merely a label for our ignorance, remain beyond the domain of any proposed experiment. The joke is that economics is a great science, because economists successfully predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions; likewise, not every physics theory pans out when experiment catches up to it. <br /><br />That said ... as these speculations cannot be <i>dis</i>proven, they're all fair game for SF. Have at it ;-)<br /><br />- EdEdward M. Lernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-20034465983539722472015-10-07T09:52:23.138-04:002015-10-07T09:52:23.138-04:00Reality can seem very unreal if one requires it to...Reality can seem very unreal if one requires it to conform to what is within arms reach. Speculation about these concepts can move the reality boundary further out. For example, entangled particles are always co-located in another dimension, no matter how far apart they are in this one. Time and gravity seem to have only one vector—time goes forward, gravity pulls down—but they only half manifest in this dimension. In another they might operate both ways, i.e., enabling a SF author to time travel or defy gravity. But then the mysterious dark energy might be the long speculated anti-gravity, i.e., the Cavorite of steampunk stories.Keith Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05431370415091202939noreply@blogger.com