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Kyuuketsuki
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Hi,
First of all I'm back although none of you will remember me but that's OK; I used to frequent these parts asking physics questions to deal with wingnuts (largely of the creationist variety) but I lost interest in that.
I am now writing my first novel, an alternate future history; military science fiction with a heavy basis in real physics. I mean, OK, I have the occasional "woo woo" thing like hyperspace gates but, since my story takes place across several disparate worlds & stellar systems, my view is you need something to get your characters from A to B. In Doctor Who that's the Tardis, in Start Trek it's warp drive, in Babylon 5 it's hyperspace gates ... in my universe it's Tachyon Gates but the back history I have written has the popular press renaming them as hyperspace gates. But most of it is what I consider to be logical extrapolations of current ideas.
I have written the novel to first draft but had to revisit my back story because something didn't make sense; unfortunately that change had surprising ramifications meaning I spent six months rewriting it all which, given I only have a few hours a week to spend on it (I work in IT), is not quite as bad as it might seem.
Anyway, given the largely "real world" ideas I am working with I figured a physics forum might be just the place to ask questions and possibly gets some objective criticism.
Keke (a.k.a. "J. C. Rocks")
First of all I'm back although none of you will remember me but that's OK; I used to frequent these parts asking physics questions to deal with wingnuts (largely of the creationist variety) but I lost interest in that.
I am now writing my first novel, an alternate future history; military science fiction with a heavy basis in real physics. I mean, OK, I have the occasional "woo woo" thing like hyperspace gates but, since my story takes place across several disparate worlds & stellar systems, my view is you need something to get your characters from A to B. In Doctor Who that's the Tardis, in Start Trek it's warp drive, in Babylon 5 it's hyperspace gates ... in my universe it's Tachyon Gates but the back history I have written has the popular press renaming them as hyperspace gates. But most of it is what I consider to be logical extrapolations of current ideas.
I have written the novel to first draft but had to revisit my back story because something didn't make sense; unfortunately that change had surprising ramifications meaning I spent six months rewriting it all which, given I only have a few hours a week to spend on it (I work in IT), is not quite as bad as it might seem.
Anyway, given the largely "real world" ideas I am working with I figured a physics forum might be just the place to ask questions and possibly gets some objective criticism.
Keke (a.k.a. "J. C. Rocks")