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Can you watch a gamma-ray burst from the side?
- Strato Incendus
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Energy cost of artificial gravity in a non-accelerating frame
- essenmein
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Can I discuss designing an artificial universe like Conway's Game of Life?
- aepryus
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Writing: Input Wanted Portable single-person weapons for year 2670 sci-fi setting
- Melbourne Guy
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What is the Theoretical Energy Density of Inflation?
- chasrob
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Why a 4D discus loses stability and lift
- Hornbein
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The real 2020 as a 1980s science fiction story?
- The Bill
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What happens to air circulation in a powerless, zero-gravity spaceship?
- Melbourne Guy
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Did any novels predict the effects of COVID-19?
- member 656954
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Can Sci-Fi Writers Use Real Science to Enhance Their Stories?
- happyhacker
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Clocks On a Hyperdimensional Planet
- Hornbein
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Motorized Watercraft on a Hyperdimensional Planet
- Hornbein
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Equator of a Planet with Four Spatial Dimensions is a 4D Torus
- Hornbein
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Interplanetary Portals vs Gravity
- Malapine
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How do you measure time on a tide locked planet?
- AotrsCommander
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A problem with interstellar travel
- Wrath_of_sloths
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How could you see an image without photons? (imaging systems)
- Maximum7
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Books on prose craft for fiction revision
- Eclair_de_XII
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Can comets create a microclimate crater on Mars 30km deep with 0.7bars?
- darkdave3000
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Protagonist wants to meet his exact clone
- chasrob
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The interior design of the central trunk of a ring spaceship
- Strato Incendus
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Can a pencil vanish from a box through random quantum fluctuations?
- chasrob
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Force Field Experiments: Realistic Physics Questions
- Flannel
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At what speed can a person jump in zero g?
- DaveC426913
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Wall thickness of ring habitats for radiation shielding
- Strato Incendus
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Finding safe atmospheric entry speed in a space game
- DynV
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Physics of a lifted Bronco plunging 30 feet into water with jumping passengers
- Lunden
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Why do we need FTL if traveling at the speed of light is instantaneous?
- keeper blue
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Sapient Life Indigenous to a Planet Orbiting a Red Dwarf
- Lren Zvsm
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Ideas for novel I'm writing I would love some insight on a concept
- KelticKemist1987
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Structure of the Galaxy: 6 Questions Confirmed
- AotrsCommander
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Number of Decks on a Rotating Habitat
- Strato Incendus
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Writing: Input Wanted Black holes as weapons - easy way to calculate the evaporation blast
- Melbourne Guy
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Writing: Input Wanted Mission near Exodus fusion reactor to kill male crew members
- Strato Incendus
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Docking spaceships to ring habitats
- Strato Incendus
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Realistic energy shields for military SF spacecraft and mecha
- GTOM
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If you are moving in a ship at FTL, could a pilot react at FTL?
- Maximum7
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Could Localised Variations in Physics Occur?
- Write Stuff
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Let's build a quantum radio receiver
- MisterIX
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Designing a standard model of physics for D&D with exotic particles
- DracoMorpheus
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Scott Manley's Video: Pulsed Rocket Drives
- anorlunda
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Wood as a precious resource on spaceships
- Strato Incendus
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Fixing Kethrain's stellar flux problem with a 248-day year
- AotrsCommander
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A mind excercise inside videogames
- Number_21
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Conditions inside a protoplanetary disc
- Galexy
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Aftermath of a collision with an ice giant
- AllanR
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Writing: Input Wanted Generation ship Exodus dumbbell versus cylindrical design
- Strato Incendus
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Writing: Input Wanted Captain's choices on colony ships
- Strato Incendus
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Hiding an orbital colony 'behind' a planet from a flare star
- Melbourne Guy
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Writing: Input Wanted Does this sound like a rip off of Halo?
- MaxDemonNoir
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Energy source that slowly changes the habitability of a solar system
- Mshenko
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Writing: Input Wanted Are Clone Ships a Better Alternative for Space Colonization?
- Algr
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Writing: Input Wanted Generation ship with rotating rings: spacing and central axis design
- Strato Incendus
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Writing: Input Wanted Different Cosmic Disasters for Different Plot Points
- Strato Incendus
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Fictional war fought entirely through disinformation in 2094
- anorlunda
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Tool for calculating distances between stars in 3D space
- Melbourne Guy
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Writing: Input Wanted Calculating earthbirth days on a planet with 300-day years
- sheepcountme
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Is it Appropriate to Include More Than One Prose-Dialogue Pair in Each Block?
- Eclair_de_XII
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Writing: Input Wanted USS Enterprise Hit by Ancient Interstellar Probe - Investigation Report
- dansmith170
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Is Kindle X-ray Worth the Extra Work for Authors and Readers?
- Melbourne Guy
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Seed ship that builds itself from stellar matter at its destination
- dansmith170
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Good gas to trace lasers in a vacuum
- Melbourne Guy
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Previously suppressed knowledge to control the masses
- jake jot
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Atmospheric pressure inside a protoplanetary disc
- Galexy
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Creating a sci-fi device that changes light speed for comedy time travel
- Trying2Learn
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Writing: Input Wanted Best material for heat exchanger on a space ship
- Melbourne Guy
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Scientific-sounding gobbledygook found by trolling PF posts
- Melbourne Guy
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Walking around the ring on a spinning space station
- AllanR
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- Poll
Writing: Input Wanted Cliffhanger vs soft ending for a space opera series
- Melbourne Guy
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What would you do if you thought you'd found a portal?
- AS-FOR
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Maximum safe mass of an asteroid in geostationary orbit
- caladin
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Photon and Neutrino detector and photon trawl device
- ginov2000
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Description of a nuclear EMP event
- GTOM
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Equipment for elite warriors in underground civil war
- GTOM
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What atoms or molecules can bind oxygen like iron does in blood?
- newjerseyrunner
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Parallel universes and spatial recurrence in infinite space-time
- diezir
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Centaur Mass for Jupiter's 4th Lagrange Point
- AllanR
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Effects of a rapidly developing, unknown nearby civilization
- newjerseyrunner
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How would Dr. Frankenstein solve the tissue rejection problem?
- Lren Zvsm
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Biomechanical properties of hypothetical alien structural polysaccharides
- snorkack
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How to get away with killing your great grandfather with time travel
- MikeandSuch
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Collaborative sci-fi story: one sentence per post
- Greg Bernhardt
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Supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud?
- Deleted member 690984
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Can any object cause fluctuations in a magnetic field?
- Deleted member 690984
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Orbiting, Relativity and Mind-effects
- some bloke
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Sci-fi writer in need of futuristic Quantum Physics ideas
- Orenshved
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Can a Palladium Foam Parachute Slow Down a Spaceship Traveling at 0.4c?
- AllanR
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Experiments to do in deep space at 40% of c
- AllanR
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Can habitable planets orbit rotating black holes near the poles?
- Adb82
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Levels of Civilization Based on Deuterium
- hyperiontorus
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Looking for physics advisor to review time travel explanations for novel
- KBarnes
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Writing: Input Wanted How to model Eccentricity, Obliquity and Recession in Excel
- DnA 9413
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Will tissue engineering make humanoid fabrication possible?
- Lren Zvsm
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Writing: Input Wanted What is the concept of 'residual self image' in The Matrix?
- Cobul
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Can I Write a Book About the Physics of Batman without Getting Sued?
- jake jot
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Energy plant draining the sun's core in sci-fi
- Mshenko
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Writing: Input Wanted How to keep from being overrun with liches
- cybernetichero
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Trying to make a rigorous imaginary world
- Swastik Majumder
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Turning oxygen into fluorine in our atmosphere
- Epsilon Eridani
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Gravity, heat, flooding, and centrifugal force on a tidal-locked planet
- Mark Everglade
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