Recent content by gatztopher

Alright, granted that it is a very complicated topic and it resists simplification, but I do think, for the purposes of ELI5 (literally, I’m trying to explain it to my children), it’s helpful to point to time dilation as proportional to how close to the speed of light a person is going, and a...

I thought of this description recently and I think it's pretty intuitive, but I've gotten some side eye telling it to friends and family (maybe because relativity is screwy, maybe because I'm confused, maybe both?) so I want to get some confirmation that it's reasonable. Here goes: If you're in...

Saw this here ( http://tony.aiu.to/jokes/condoms.html ) had to post it The Klein Bottle Condom: Modeled after the Klein bottle by a sexologist/topologist doing a study on transpatial invagination, Kleins are only for the most adventurous condom wearer since it is almost as difficult to get...

I'll be the first to admit it - I lack thought experiments, mathematical evidence, and fictionalized biology. I'm working on these, to the extent that I can (certainly, they're helpful to plunk throughout the story), but I am mostly running on intuition. However... Which is offensive: With the...

Granted - I've been taking the relationship between life and the 2nd law too lightly. (My "life is time travel" statement, I'll scrap it moving forward.) But the relationship is nevertheless distinct. In a universe where things are supposed to get more disorganized, we have a phenomenon of...

Danger, thanks for the pep talk - it's very true, and I like this story enough to not sacrifice it on an altar of endlessly pursuing plausibility. That said, I'm still taking my first steps in writing this (first six months, after a couple years of thinking about it) and putting the ideas to...

So think about it this way... we live in a universe bound by entropy. Life developed counter to that entropy. Life has been anthropic, constantly organizing matter. I always say that I don't believe in time travel except in the sense that life itself is time travel, in defying entropy, the arrow...

Agreed, I should show more of my hand. This may move the discussion a little bit away from slow burning antimatter, and induce even more eye rolling, but here goes: Basically, I want the creature to be antimatter because I take Feynman's conjecture that antimatter has reversed time and tie that...

I definitely appreciate the input, and also, I am open to literary critiquing. I imagine some scientist reading this thread, thinking "Nooooooo, cliche technobabble! And it was so close to being plausible..." and then their eyes roll so hard their neck breaks. Right now, the field with low...

It's additive technobabble - "the frog genes prevent the T Rex from seeing non-moving objects" - which is better than reformist technobabble - "T Rex's... they just can't see non-moving objects."

That's one heckuva website. It's even loads on Moscow, the next target!

Y'know, it warped in from another dimension, so I suppose I could go with "it's blanketed by an interdimensional field that only leaks a little matter at a time." I just need to read up on... interdimensional fields... I hope hyperphysics has a page for that. And flubbing the conversion...

I'm working on a story that involves planting a chunk of antimatter the size of the US capital... well, on the US capital. Unfortunately, I realized that it would probably blow up like an atom bomb the size of the Empire State Building, and would take half the solar system with it. The...

<deadpan>Get ready, we're about to arrive at the Ha family reunion.</deadpan> Did you hear about Porky Pig's Spanish, philosophical cousin, Porque? I was at the department store, thinking about shoplifting a sweater. My logic was why swipe the card again, when I could swipe the cardigan. I'm...

Finnish to the finish!