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Science Fiction and No-Way Physics By Bill Christensen

posted: 19 July 2007 12:35 p.m. ET
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The physics
of impossibility goes by a variety of names, including no-way physics.
These names refer to physical principles that simply can't be contravened or
gotten around.
Robert P. Crease, chairman
of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and historian at the
Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently wrote an interesting piece on this
topic. He says in part:
No-way
physics produces a special kind of dissatisfaction, involving the collision of
science with our hopes and dreams – of limitless energy, of superluminal
travel, of pinning things to specific places at specific times. Humans seem
hard-wired to have such hopes, and hard-wired to balk at the science that
dashes them...
Science fiction writers
seem hard-wired to balk at "no-way physics" as well. Even the people
designated as "hard science fiction" writers are often inclined to go
around the rules:
Do you like
science fiction that absolutely obeys the rules (as we know them) or are you
more of a contrarian? Let
us know.
Via No-way
physics.
(This Science
Fiction in the News story used with permission from Technovelgy.com - where science meets
fiction.)
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