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Summary:: Changing the speed of light, etc.
First: thank you everyone. You have all been a great help. I am a retired engineer trying to fill the gaps in an inferior education. Thank your for your ongoing guidance with all the questions I have asked over the years.
Now I will ask an absurd (but not stupid--I hope) question. It is not for me. It is for a friend. She is a writer and is drafting a novel that requires a science-fiction element. However! It is a comedy.
She needs about a paragraph on how to describe, as scientifically as possible, but for a lay person, the following scenario.
(One more time: this is not for me it really is for a friend and it requires the tongue to be planted firmly in the cheek -- it is a comedy, she says.)
Here goes...
"Someone creates a powerful magnetic device, intended to erase all computer memory. However, in the process, it has altered the quantum nature of light, converting it into a wave (not a critical issue), but (more importantly) altering the speed of light and enabling a moment of time travel."
It is a sincere question. She says: "Tell them to have fun with it."
She needs to "explain this device" in a way that sounds real, but hints at comedy.
First: thank you everyone. You have all been a great help. I am a retired engineer trying to fill the gaps in an inferior education. Thank your for your ongoing guidance with all the questions I have asked over the years.
Now I will ask an absurd (but not stupid--I hope) question. It is not for me. It is for a friend. She is a writer and is drafting a novel that requires a science-fiction element. However! It is a comedy.
She needs about a paragraph on how to describe, as scientifically as possible, but for a lay person, the following scenario.
(One more time: this is not for me it really is for a friend and it requires the tongue to be planted firmly in the cheek -- it is a comedy, she says.)
Here goes...
"Someone creates a powerful magnetic device, intended to erase all computer memory. However, in the process, it has altered the quantum nature of light, converting it into a wave (not a critical issue), but (more importantly) altering the speed of light and enabling a moment of time travel."
It is a sincere question. She says: "Tell them to have fun with it."
She needs to "explain this device" in a way that sounds real, but hints at comedy.