The Science Fiction in Science: Dark Matter Ramjets and Black Hole Powered Spacecraft

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

New Scientist has an interesting article about novel methods for interstellar travel, which includes links to recent scientific articles: In August, physicist Jia Liu at New York University outlined his design for a spacecraft powered by dark matter (arxiv.org/abs/0908.1429v1). Soon afterward, mathematicians Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland at Kansas State University in Manhattan proposed plans […]

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Astronomy in Science Fiction: “Lobsters” by Charlie Stross

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

First, I’m not picking on Charlie Stross particularly.   It’s just that I’d been meaning to read his work for many years now, and finally got the chance with the purchase of a Kindle.   In addition to a couple of his novels, I downloaded his award-nominated story “Lobsters” that I recall hearing many great things about. […]

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