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Jeff Rosenbury
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Scriptwriters refer to the reference document keeping track of the consistent information of the fictional universe as the bible. Mostly this is character background information like rarely heard family names or the like, but for science fiction it is often how the physics of the universe works.
My interest here is how (fictional) physical laws impact scriptwriting. Can we come up with extensions of physics that sound good and advance stories with an eye toward more consistent fictional physics across copyright properties (i.e. fictional universes).
Some topics might be:
Reactionless drives
AI/Human interface
Why small ships are faster than large ships (common in fiction)
Evil weapons for MacGuffins
Weapons that destroy bodies (lowering filming costs).My idea for reactionless drives is a fifth force (sixth if we count the Higgs field) that is (inversely) dependent on the amount of nearby mass and pushes on the sum of the mass within a region of a few lightyears. It would drop in strength due to nearby mass, allowing small ships to move faster than large ones. (It still needs a cool name.)
My interest here is how (fictional) physical laws impact scriptwriting. Can we come up with extensions of physics that sound good and advance stories with an eye toward more consistent fictional physics across copyright properties (i.e. fictional universes).
Some topics might be:
Reactionless drives
AI/Human interface
Why small ships are faster than large ships (common in fiction)
Evil weapons for MacGuffins
Weapons that destroy bodies (lowering filming costs).My idea for reactionless drives is a fifth force (sixth if we count the Higgs field) that is (inversely) dependent on the amount of nearby mass and pushes on the sum of the mass within a region of a few lightyears. It would drop in strength due to nearby mass, allowing small ships to move faster than large ones. (It still needs a cool name.)