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.
Douglas Phillips
If only I had a $2 billion particle accelerator and a coherent neutrino beam, I could answer this through experimental data. Alas, I'll have to go full theoretical on you.
At places in the stories, a character (often Nala) will talk about "spatial compression" or setting a compression direction. I picture this as an arrow in 3-D space, a vector. Point anywhere, expand into 4-D, and (within your experimental chamber) space along your chosen vector will compress by a factor set by Tau (see the equation in Quantum Space). In Quantum Void, alien portals do the same thing by creating a compression vector between two doorways. Simpler, but presumably there's some heavy technology involved!
And if you'd like to find out how far you can compress space (to another galaxy?) you'll enjoy Book 5 in the series, Quantum Chaos, coming summer 2023.
At places in the stories, a character (often Nala) will talk about "spatial compression" or setting a compression direction. I picture this as an arrow in 3-D space, a vector. Point anywhere, expand into 4-D, and (within your experimental chamber) space along your chosen vector will compress by a factor set by Tau (see the equation in Quantum Space). In Quantum Void, alien portals do the same thing by creating a compression vector between two doorways. Simpler, but presumably there's some heavy technology involved!
And if you'd like to find out how far you can compress space (to another galaxy?) you'll enjoy Book 5 in the series, Quantum Chaos, coming summer 2023.
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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?
kk
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Douglas Phillips:
When can we expect book 2? And how many books do you envision in total for the series?
Douglas Phillips
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Douglas Phillips:
This question came in via email: Early on in Quantum Space, Nala does what she considers to be an illegal download. Later on, with the Corporate and FBI pushes, this never surfaces. Her earlier action is very relevant to her "innocence" yet is totally ignored. Am I missing something?
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