Difference between revisions of "Moving Mars"
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| − | {{ | + | {{bookheader | title=Moving Mars | author=Greg Bear | pubdate=1993 | pages=500 | read=2006.09.17 | rate=10 | expect=10 | ISBN=0-812-52480-2}} |
| − | + | The plotline superficially reminds me a lot of the Mars storyline in Babylon 5... and just about every other story that involves Mars colonists. However, it's the metastory that makes it interesting. The 'what if?' that is posited by Bear. 'What if there was a new branch of mathematics that could remove the infinities from Quantum Mechanics?' In such a universe, Heisenberg is no longer the cruel ruler that we see. The Uncertainty Principle is no longer a stumbling block to teleportation. We could move Mars itself..... | |
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The plotline superficially reminds me a lot of the Mars storyline in Babylon 5... and just about every other story that involves Mars colonists. However, it's the metastory that makes it interesting. The 'what if?' that is posited by Bear. 'What if there was a new branch of mathematics that could remove the infinities from Quantum Mechanics?' In such a universe, Heisenberg is no longer the cruel ruler that we see. The Uncertainty Principle is no longer a stumbling block to teleportation. We could move Mars itself.....
