Quantum Diminishment
๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ฌโ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ช๐ก: ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐๐ก๐๐(๐๐ข๐ข๐ ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ ๐ฏ)
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ก๐ง๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐: 12
๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐ง: ๐ค๐จ๐๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ง
So in the second instalment I play with the idea of being able to shrink something down to a size that renders it virtually undetectable by conventional sensors, enabling craft to penetrate planetary defences, and insert an assault team on the ground. The concept of shrinking something has long been played with in the Sci-Fi genre but is it really possible?
One argument is that amongst inter-linking atoms, and the area between their lowest constituent parts (Quanta), exists an astronomical amount of space. Is it possible to compress this space, with no ill-effect on the larger structure as a whole? We know that at the quantum level there is a size limit, known as the โPlanck Lengthโ, so the ability to compress is bound by limitations itself.
Some would say that this is not possible and that other still yet to be discovered variables, as well as the space in between, is as important to the overall structure of something as the quanta that it is made from.
What do you think? Is this lazy hard science or a sufficient enough unknown to make it feasible from a science fiction perspective?
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ก๐ง๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐: 12
๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐ง: ๐ค๐จ๐๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ง
So in the second instalment I play with the idea of being able to shrink something down to a size that renders it virtually undetectable by conventional sensors, enabling craft to penetrate planetary defences, and insert an assault team on the ground. The concept of shrinking something has long been played with in the Sci-Fi genre but is it really possible?
One argument is that amongst inter-linking atoms, and the area between their lowest constituent parts (Quanta), exists an astronomical amount of space. Is it possible to compress this space, with no ill-effect on the larger structure as a whole? We know that at the quantum level there is a size limit, known as the โPlanck Lengthโ, so the ability to compress is bound by limitations itself.
Some would say that this is not possible and that other still yet to be discovered variables, as well as the space in between, is as important to the overall structure of something as the quanta that it is made from.
What do you think? Is this lazy hard science or a sufficient enough unknown to make it feasible from a science fiction perspective?
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