If you are going to have teleporting in your book, then there are several possible ways of doing it. 1) Analysing the object or person or thing to be teleported, transmitting the information and making a copy at the receiving end. This is the method that has been reported in the media about teleporting electrons. Anyway there are problems with this: a) The amount of … [Read more...]
Alien Life Forms in Fiction
The first thing to remember is that aliens are alien. That may sound obvious but it is amazing how often it's forgotten. Often aliens are just humans but with different skin. Their senses will be different (e.g. could see a different part of the spectrum to us), their morals and social structures will almost certainly be different. We may not even recognise the way they … [Read more...]
Invisibility in Fiction
If you are going to have invisibility (or cloaking devices) in your book you may want to consider the following: First you have to decide if light goes straight through an object or around it. If light goes through an object then it’s a bit like glass, where there might be some refraction, if this occurs will make an object near invisible and still detectable. The main … [Read more...]