Recent content by Sanescience

If science jargon is not your forte, don't try to explain it. Just have the brightness of the Sun diminish for "no reason". If heat takes a million years to escape from the core, then the core quenched a million years ago and now we're seeing the effect. In Stephen Baxter stories "Xeelee...

Yes, photons interact quite a lot. Photons exhibit positive and negative interference characteristics via point-wave duality definitions. From one viewpoint, canceling the presence of a light source via another light source could be thought of as "casting a shadow". Does a proton cast a...

Well, being a fan of "reasonably" believable science I don't think it is quite the right approach to not even try. I sometimes pitch to be a consultant on technology in entertainment but here is a freebie... Off the top of my head you might want something like Ice9.

Don't go the route of a real black hole. It is too absurd something that gravitationally powerful would A: maintain a fixed position in relation to Earth, and B: Not instantly fry everything in the solar system with the cosmic level of EM and hard radiation emitted by in-falling material...