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Sci-fi story with the premise that spacetime geometry is Riemannian
I'm trying to find a hard sci-fi story where one of the major premises was that the world has a Riemannian geometry (x^2+y^2+z^2 + t^2) instead of the real world's Minkowski geometry (x^2+y^2+z^2 - t^...
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Television episode about scientists discovering the Grand Unification Theory, as each one discovers it they begin to vanish
I'm still trying to find another sci-fi show/series/episode - it has similarities to the one Twilight Zone with the experimental aircraft (And When the Sky was Opened). But in this one, a bunch of ...
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Looking for a book with a spacecraft with odd rules of physics
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The book is set aboard a spheric spacecraft which has very odd physical rules. It travels at the speed of light but the speed of light is the speed of sound aboard this ship.
When people ...
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Story set inside a sphere
This is a story with a civilisation whose "planet" is the inside of a sphere, like an inverted/hollow world (or Dyson sphere but that's not quite the same thing). The physics in the story is made up.
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Looking for the name of a book where a physicist gets transported to a medieval world
The character meets a witch of some kind that sucks the life from men, but manages to escape. He first encounters her when she seems to be running from some kind of creature or guards. He helps her ...
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Lorentz contraction in sci-fi?
In particular, I'd like to remember the title of a SF novel that I read a thousand years ago. Unfortunately I have forgotten almost every detail, except one that's stuck in my mind: after encountering ...
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