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Research Blues
Josh:
It's also funny about both pantheon and wikipedia. A lot of the more obscure mythology names and creatures in wikipedia are sourced directly from pantheon, from what I've seen when cross-referencing.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Every time I see this thread title, I find myself mentally putting together a list of blues musicians to start listening to.
eviladam:
Now I have a great idea for a sci fi novel, but I'm not smart enough to write it. The science is crucail to the idea I have. If it's not bone hard scientific fact it needs to be at least believable, and my scientific education is mostlly in biology and anatomy. Introduction to Chemistry and Physics beyond biology.
I'm affraid I just don't understand qauntum mechanics, and physics and that kind of thing. I can say things that sound smart like string theory, and e=mc sqaured, but I probablly sound like an idiot.
So I either need a really smart co author, or an easy way to get the info I need to sound smart, because spending months at the library is not my idea of fun.
Blaze:
I love research, but what you need is a real life physicist to help you. If you want me to, I can put you in touch with a physicist friend of mine.
He is absolutely brilliant, but sometimes he just answers question with, "That is impossible."
For example, I asked him what would really happen if you could step out of time, and turn a bullet around once it had left the muzzle of a gun.
He explained all the reasons that that simply could never happen, and then said I could write it any way I wanted because it isn't science it is fantasy.
I guess that is how physicist think. Although he loves Star Trek, especially the Heisenberg compensators on the transporter. (Heisenberg principal is the one which precludes the functioning of the transporter.)
eviladam:
Well I can kind of see the bullet thing. The problem with that, assuming you could step out of time ala Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and turn a bullet, or a knife around is momentum. The object would probablly either keep going backwards or start tumbelling uncontrollablly.
That might actually be pretty helpful if you could put me in touch. :)
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