Dip by Edmund Schluessel
Posted: October 18, 2017, 01:51:20 PM
Heisenberg's principle? It’s been awhile since I fooled around with Quantum Mechanics. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a wormhole to a time retarded universe in which one second in theirs is five years in our? We could replace the refrigerator with that one. Just put food into the wormhole to that universe and presto! After five years it’s only a second older and the good thing is----it’s still warm!
And instead of a microwave, how about a wormhole to a newly formed universe that’s still hot. A good oven. And Schrodinger’s cat is neither dead or alive? So how can anybody kill it? But it sure as hell can scratch you! After reading this story, I think I’ll get the old Calc books out again and review them. It’s been twenty years or more. I loved science once, but haven’t ventured into that area for twenty years or more. The secret to science-------is math!!
The author as attempted to interject real science into a story that will stimulate the readers’ interest in science. I like that, for it shows multiple levels of writing. Star Trek has produced many physicist today by making science so desirable in the sixties with its fantastic ability to give science a ‘cool lifestyle’ aura, and in the not too distance future something like Warp Drive will be on the horizon! So yes, these stories have a place.
This story might be too scientific for most readers, but it should be read by all. However, I did notice some good story telling techniques like getting the reader’s attention in the first paragraph!
The show and tell techniques also balance out well. The use of sensory input in taste was used, but I would have like to read more sensory input like feeling warm and maybe a reference to air temperature in the conference room when the crowd rushed to eat. Little references go a long way.
An engineer or physicists capable of creating a devise that produces the pocket universe, would have safeguards against what is obviously an overload incorporated into its ‘fail safe’ system. A better ending might have been something so abstract in thinking like a paralleled singularity placing all the laws of known physics with the cave men.
Good story and I liked it. Nice!
And instead of a microwave, how about a wormhole to a newly formed universe that’s still hot. A good oven. And Schrodinger’s cat is neither dead or alive? So how can anybody kill it? But it sure as hell can scratch you! After reading this story, I think I’ll get the old Calc books out again and review them. It’s been twenty years or more. I loved science once, but haven’t ventured into that area for twenty years or more. The secret to science-------is math!!
The author as attempted to interject real science into a story that will stimulate the readers’ interest in science. I like that, for it shows multiple levels of writing. Star Trek has produced many physicist today by making science so desirable in the sixties with its fantastic ability to give science a ‘cool lifestyle’ aura, and in the not too distance future something like Warp Drive will be on the horizon! So yes, these stories have a place.
This story might be too scientific for most readers, but it should be read by all. However, I did notice some good story telling techniques like getting the reader’s attention in the first paragraph!
The show and tell techniques also balance out well. The use of sensory input in taste was used, but I would have like to read more sensory input like feeling warm and maybe a reference to air temperature in the conference room when the crowd rushed to eat. Little references go a long way.
An engineer or physicists capable of creating a devise that produces the pocket universe, would have safeguards against what is obviously an overload incorporated into its ‘fail safe’ system. A better ending might have been something so abstract in thinking like a paralleled singularity placing all the laws of known physics with the cave men.
Good story and I liked it. Nice!