Re: Creating worlds that are big enough....

In article <ftc215phjgc8lmv3cfmlujvako5dqp39o1@xxxxxxx>, Eric Ammadon
email_addr@xxxxxxxxxxx says...

Speculatively? Suppose there was some field analogous to an
electromagnetic field, and that the interaction of mass with that
field created the effect we call gravity. In that case it's possible
that the same mass of different types of material could cause
different gravitic effects for different materials, just as an iron
core and a brass core in an electromagnet produce different magnetic
effects.

Experiments to find such possibilities have been repeatedly carried out
for well over a century. Along with indirect analyses based on
astronomical objects, it is estalished that inertisl mass (and indeed
energy mass-equivalent in general) are proportional to gravitational
mass to a very great exactitude.

But that's just speculation, apparently we don't do that here,
especially in threads about "creating worlds". Apparently I'm a
misplaced person. I speculate constantly, it's what I do to
compensate for having such a limited imagination. I've even
speculated that our solar system, or our entire nebula, could be
moving through some sort of field that allows electricity to occur,
and wondered about what would happen when we moved beyond the limits
of such a field and electricity just stopped working.

Such concepts are not unknown in SF, although what can be done with them
is limited.

But see, the difference is that I'm interested in speculative fiction,
so I don't limit my speculation based on the accepted science of the
current century. Mea culpa.

Nobody does, I should imagine. Though we do take an interest in
creating plausible wordds, which necessarily restrains the extent to
which we can arbitrarily discard well-observed phenomena.

- Gerry Quinn






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