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06-06-2018, 09:08 AM | #73 | |
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Anyway, de-bugging is physically possible and by the rules in Bio-tech fairly easy. Maximizing IQ though is a TL12 development when 2100 is wobbly on early TL11 in gene-tech. As for dark matter and dark energy the original books are silent on those even as regards theory. Applications for either would be pretty much out of left field (and probably count as "superscience" that we aren't supposed to see in TS)..
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06-06-2018, 02:57 PM | #74 |
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Dark matter classifies as "exotic" matter, which is listed as being developed at Hawking Station. It could be fun to have some near weightless dark matter alloy steel!
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Dark matter has normal mass as that's kind of the mystery. It's that it doesn't appear to interact with normal matter in any other way.
I can't imagine a use for something that has mass but no other physicality.
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06-06-2018, 05:13 PM | #76 |
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If Dark Matter has practical uses, they'll doubtless be surprising.
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06-06-2018, 05:22 PM | #77 |
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I don't get the logic. If something of no likely use has a use, it will be surprising? Okay?
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Either would be superscience. If you just wanted high strength and low mass TS already has carbon fullerene materials that are far stronger than steel with less mass.
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06-06-2018, 08:52 PM | #79 |
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My point is just that dark matter is in a literal reading of the books (and I can only assume that the authors know the difference between baryonic and exotic matter), that we don't know much about it now, and that it could therefor be imaginatively utilized as fodder for cool material science technology in the THS universe. Is that super science? Maybe not any more so than brainpeeling, terraforming, or memetics.
Since we don't know much about dark matter, it pretty much gives gamers free rein to imagine all sorts of nifty possibilities. Maybe incorporating it into baryonic matter makes substances invisible. Maybe it makes stuff super heavy. Maybe it strangely makes stuff have almost no interaction with gravity. Who can say? Nobody, because we just don't know. Its the fiction part of science fiction. |
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* == For instance, someone from before the emergence of nuclear physics would (unwittingly) classify fission and fusion as superscience because they break the law of conservation of mass. For these reason there was a huge disagreement about the maximum age of the sun back in the day. |
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