Recent content by G.K. Masterson

I guess I need to clarify. I want this to be a planet that is still in our galaxy but so far away from Earth that were a human to be instantly transported there, they would not be able to figure out *where* they were in relation to Earth without a lot of observation and an advanced level of...

How far in the Milky Way would one have to travel to land upon a planet where the night sky would have zero familiar stars? Basically, I'd like to set up a world somewhere so far from our section of the galaxy that the only things that are the same are distant galaxies (which I'm assuming would...

Some places lost upwards of 40% to voluntary migration which is a bit different than what's happening in my story. Some of mine is voluntary but a lot of it is involuntary -- the scientists, engineers, and a lot of the intellectuals aren't given the choice as to whether or not they're going. For...

It's not 100% of all the technically inclined, no, but it is a significant section of them and, for story reasons, those who opt to remain behind find themselves in a situation much like scientists in the former USSR lived in and some areas begin to stagnate entirely (like biology and...

Hi all, I'm a science-fiction/fantasy writer who is in the midst of outlining a distant-future (10,000+ years) story. The main parts of it I can handle (humans on Earth have gone through a cycle of Intellectual --> Dark ages with the current era being a kind of pinnacle never again achieved)...

Hi all, I'm new here. I joined because I'm teaching myself astronomy and physics. Please go easy on me because, yes, I am a history major who wound up getting into computers and programming after college and used that to get over the block I had on mathematics. I've managed to get a handle on...

Thanks for the table. :) Now I get the fun of populating it so that it matches known cosmological history and I can correlate my fictional history of "what's going on in Asgard and Jotunheim, yo" to it. I've been trying to do that for a week now and couldn't figure out how to get it to work out...

Hi all, I'm a writer who is not really great at math so I need some help with establishing time rates between different "realms" in a world-setting I'm building for a story. The gist is this: Earth is there with it's normal 1 year = 1 year timeflow. There are two realms where time runs much...