Category Archive: Science

Jun 05

Wolfram Alpha: The Sci-FI Writer’s Friend

Any discussion of Wolfram Alpha should start with Wolfram’s flagship and source of dominance in the universe: Mathematica®, upon which I imagine Alpha is built.  There are any number of categories of software that leave me amazed that such works of accomplishment can even spawn from the limited human mind: regular expression parsers, C++ compilers, …

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May 20

The Bacterial Iron War Front

Ferric Enterobactin

Well, here it is.  My friends out there, knowing I’m a chemist, had to suppose that fairly soon there would be something here about chemistry.  I am a physical/computational chemist and this post is more about biochemistry, but biochemistry needs computations, too.  This particular topic relates to some literature research I am doing at the …

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May 08

Do We HAVE to Conform to Known Science?

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Science fiction just ain’t what it used to be. I grew up on the Tom Swift, Jr., series and give it much of the credit for my going into science and engineering.  I have all the books except for two or three, and re-read them every now and then.  When I do, I put myself …

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May 06

Relativistic Flight Equations

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When I wrote A Hierarchy of Gods, I needed relativistic flight to, then, Xi-Geminorum, both with and without turn-around at the halfway point.  The star has since changed as a consequence of what we know about exoplanets, but that is minor.  At the time, the Internet was much younger and one did not easily find …

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