Leo McBride asked Eric Michael Craig:

How much of the science in your books is... well, possible? There's some astounding bits of proposed technology in there!

Eric Michael Craig All of it (but you probably want a better answer than that).

The science you’re probably talking about is what underlies Stormhaven’s technologies. This science is a bit outside currently held mainstream understandings, but in all fairness, it’s important to note that most of what we believe now, was also outside mainstream science before we collectively realized our assumptions were flawed. It is when we quit challenging out boundaries that we quit developing.

A reasonably famous physicist who was once sitting in my lab as a “hair shirt” for an investor summed up the reality of science with a simple question: “Do you know how to change a physicist’s mind?” he asked. After pausing a beat to give me a chance to shake my head, he supplied this answer: “Wait for him to die.” He was visiting my lab to go over the work I had been doing in Quantum Gravity and Inertial Interactions. He was also reasonably sure that he could not be persuaded. Four hours later, he told the investor that had brought him in as an expert, to invest in our work. His comment to me was, “I hope this doesn’t mean my demise is imminent.”

What I had pointed out to him was that in science’s headlong rush to elevate a theory to the lofty status of LAW a detail had been missed. It is a simple special case that would have been obvious to the discoverer (in this case Sir Isaac Newton) if he had been able to measure the action and reaction of objects in nanosecond timescales. Unfortunately because he couldn’t, he had to assume that action and reaction were equal and opposite AND simultaneous. But in the real universe this is not true. Simultaneity is an assumption, but is not a fact. Because of this phase delay between action and reaction there must exist some transient mechanism of energy storage within any real system, before equilibrium can be restored. (Did I lose everyone yet?)

Anyway, this special case of transient force represents an opportunity to build machines that specifically capitalize on this sub-steady-state condition. I spent 10 years in the lab developing and testing things that worked on this principle (actually I spent many more years on this, but those were formal laboratory studies … meaning the years where I got paid to play with the cool toys).

So, yes these things can be done. We prototyped many of the Stormhaven Technologies that appear in the book. Those were only commercial extrapolations of things I have actually built and held in my own hands.

Then why don’t I have my own Stormhaven carrier ship?

Did I ever tell you how much I hate dealing with investor types? (There is a reason.)

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