Category Archives: Science Fiction

The Galactic Encyclopedia and Relativity

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Galactic Encyclopedia and Relativity The advanced Galactic Encyclopedia still has to obey the dictates of relativity, that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light or radio waves.  So while we reside about 25,000 light years from the … Continue reading →

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Virtual Galactic Travel

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Dennis SILVERMAN

While Hari (Isaac Asimov) imagined you needed great equation solving ability to predict the future, we now have 500 petaflop computers and vast data sets of everything to make our predictions, and 60,000 Facebook employees, and Alphabet or Google’s 130,000 … Continue reading →

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Galactic Relativistic Travel, in Theory

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Galactic Relativistic Travel, in Theory Standard physical ideas of galactic travel imagine an earth only effort.  But there is the science fiction of an advanced galactic Empire (Foundation), and that would have set up an advanced galactic system of travel.  … Continue reading →

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