Yahia Ihab
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Douglas Phillips:
Thoroughly loved the rock solid science base of your fascinating novels. So here's my question, is there an edition of your "Quantum Space" in which you included references or citations for the scientific core of the novel? if No, had you done this in other novels?
Douglas Phillips
A good question. Alas, I have no References section in any of my books primarily because they're novels. You know... fictional. But I can point to science books (written by real scientists) where I pulled some of my ideas. For example, I first fell in love with the idea of extra dimensions of space from Rudy Rucker, who wrote a superb book in 1985 called The Fourth Dimension. I also love any physicist who has a knack for explaining the deepest ideas of our universe, like Max Tegmark (Our Mathematical Universe), Brian Greene (The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes), and Sean Carroll (too many books to list, but his latest is The Biggest Ideas in the Universe). As for Fermilab, I've only been there once but I had the opportunity to speak with several particle physicists in person - pure joy! If there's anything in particular you'd like to know more about, just contact me at info@douglasphillipsbooks.com, and I will be happy to respond!
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Jojo
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Douglas Phillips:
Enjoyed all the Quantum books! You haven't offered any theory about how a destination might be pinpointed and selected through compressed space/time. I'd like to hear any thoughts on this? Using the compression travel technique, you have the possibility to write something that very few SF writers have ever done, which is a story/series that takes place in another galaxy. I'd like to see this.
Surya
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Douglas Phillips:
I really liked the idea of 'Core' being some kind of AI (as I understand so far) as opposed to being a 'living being'. Will there be any more quantum books, and if so, would they touch upon the Why and How of Core's existence ? It would be interesting to also know how Core passes operational information around given the limitation of speed of information transmission capped at speed of light.
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