Space Time Stories

We certainly could build a supercomputer with its own dedicated nuclear power plant. My guess is that we won’t. So as long as we use CMOS transistors for computation there is a maximum supercomputer we will build. And that will happen in roughly 10 years.

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Many people scoff and have problems even understanding the Singularity.  With credit to Charlie Stross the singularity is defined as a specific 13 year period from 2047 through 2060.  Here is a chart of the computational speed of the fastest computer in the world, as measured in floating point operations per second.  You can see [...]

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In the quantum mechanics or statistical mechanics sense a forbidden event is never completely impossible.  Rather it is extremely improbable based upon some symmetry, entropy, or energy constraint.  I propose that in most situations time travel into the past is extremely improbable. Theorem:   Time travel into the past has an exponentially increasing improbability as changes [...]

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if books printed with atoms disappear from our lives then God help our society because we are doomed

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Interesting ideas on creativity from Creatologue. Related posts Word Usage in SciFi Stories (3) Great writing = Verbs (0)

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Scifi pessimists say – we’ll never be able to feed 8 billion people. Scifi optimists invent algae which can fix nitrogen from the air, generate fertilizer, and live in a symbiotic relationship with roots of food plants in airborne greenhouses. Scifi pessimists say – global warming will kill us all. Scifi optimists invent CO2 scavenging [...]

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I have never cared about the zombie theme, but I can’t wait to read this. Related posts No related posts.

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Just finished listening to Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine” from Audible. As a time travel story it was excellent, there was a time machine, multiple uses of that machine, time travel was a key element of the story, and there was even a time loop. The overall story dragged at many points, especially when [...]

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Six word scifi stories are excellent ! Mine says: Time machine broken, dinosaurs are drooling ! Related posts Richard Morgan on Internecine SciFi Warfare (4) Joe Haldeman’s Accidental Time Machine (0) An excellent time travel movie: Timecrimes (0) Time Travel Websites (1)

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Want to be a great writer?  Quit using adjectives and adverbs.   Use verbs. Here’s a list of verbs.  Right-click “Save As” to save these to a file. Study them and use them. Your writing will shift to a new level. If you like this list perhaps you might consider reading your next book on a [...]

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