Re: Strange physics

Thomas wrote:
Here are some themes I would like to read about (stories or novels). The themes are all related to the physical makeup and the "laws" of the universe. I'd be grateful if someone could recommend some titles.

- stories about spectacular physical phenomena that have been described and explained by modern physics, but have not been observed on Earth on a large scale, for example matter/antimatter annihilation.

A famous short story by Heinlein was "And He Built a Crooked House," about a builder who builds a house for a family, and finds it has started extruding into higher dimensions of space. They have a lot of fun going from room to room and seeing what's there.

A famous Twilight Zone episode, "Little Girl Lost," had a similar theme.


- stories about hitherto unknown physical phenomena. Example: an unexpected chain reaction of particle decay which threatens to "alter" (destroy, in effect) all things living and inanimate.

It's too bad you specified only stories you can *read*, because the 1950s SF movie "The Magnetic Monster" would qualify: In it, a scientist accidentally creates a new element with amazing properties. It's a true magnetic monopole--only attracts, never repels. And it can assimilate the energy it attracts into itself, which begins to make it a menace to our energy-based society.


- stories about things that contradict "our" physics - laws of nature that are different elsewhere in the universe, or laws that change, overnight or gradually.

There was a short story I read as a kid, "Stranglehold" (don't remember the author, might have been in Analog): Explorers from Earth discover a planet whose inhabitants routinely practice psychic phenomena and don't believe in science. Because their psychic powers distort the results of scientific experiments in subjective ways, science never got started on their planet; so they concentrated on developing magic and sorcery instead, the opposite of what happened on Earth.


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