Kick ass physics!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by MrFun
With KH's physic powers, he could take over the world someday.

There are at least 2000-3000 people in the world who know more high energy theoretical physics than I do.

Even in what's beginning to look like my specialty (non-standard Higgs phenomenology) there are still a few dozen who know more than I do.

[MattBowron]

Two questions to the physics grads, and I didn't study physics, anything I learn on it is from the web, or you guys (hence the questions)

Is there any relationship between the behaviour of sub-atomic particles and their given characteristics (eg wave function, mass, conversion, entropy, lifespan) and temperature exchange, such as thermodynamics?

Second question: is dark matter/dark energy and regular matter/antimatter two completely different forms of energy separate to one another or are they merely different extremes of some great energy frequency?

Why i'm asking is because I'm writing a fiction novel that starts with a Big Bang - Big Crunch - Big Bang theory of universes, along with a mixture of M-theory, using an anology of heat transferrence as an anology to explain the differences in masses in particles, their characteristics in the relationships of quantum uncertainty, entanglement and the observer effect, plus the characteristics of motion that lead to the 4 gauge forces, wormholes, dark matter/energy and baryonic matter/energy as well as antimatter, and later astronomical evolution, leading to life, etc

Much thanks to those who can provide answers, even if they may think of such questions as fundamentally stupid

[Jon Miller]

Why don't you write about something you understand?

JM

[Elok]

Because nothing is exciting once you understand it, I guess. I suggest you scare him away from the concept with math. Lots and lots of equations involving Greek letters and vectors. Even rail guns lose their coolness under the weight of sufficient mathematics.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Why don't you write about something you understand?

JM

Writers do research to learn more about what they initially do not understand for a story they work on.

[Krill]

He's a fiction writer, so he wants to try and make it into fact...even if he won't in all likelyhood, understand the answers given to him

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by MattBowron
Two questions to the physics grads, and I didn't study physics, anything I learn on it is from the web, or you guys (hence the questions)

You're not going to learn very much about physics from anything I can tell you in a few sentences.

Is there any relationship between the behaviour of sub-atomic particles and their given characteristics (eg wave function, mass, conversion, entropy, lifespan) and temperature exchange, such as thermodynamics?

Yes.

Second question: is dark matter/dark energy and regular matter/antimatter two completely different forms of energy separate to one another or are they merely different extremes of some great energy frequency?

3 completely different things (dark matter, dark energy and regular matter). Dark matter doesn't have to be very mysterious. Just a type (or many types) of particle we've never seen before.

Why i'm asking is because I'm writing a fiction novel that starts with a Big Bang - Big Crunch - Big Bang theory of universes, along with a mixture of M-theory, using an anology of heat transferrence as an anology to explain the differences in masses in particles, their characteristics in the relationships of quantum uncertainty, entanglement and the observer effect, plus the characteristics of motion that lead to the 4 gauge forces, wormholes, dark matter/energy and baryonic matter/energy as well as antimatter, and later astronomical evolution, leading to life, etc

This is mumbo-jumbo

Much thanks to those who can provide answers, even if they may think of such questions as fundamentally stupid

You're welcome

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Why i'm asking is because I'm writing a fiction novel that starts with a Big Bang - Big Crunch - Big Bang theory of universes, along with a mixture of M-theory, using an anology of heat transferrence as an anology to explain the differences in masses in particles, their characteristics in the relationships of quantum uncertainty, entanglement and the observer effect, plus the characteristics of motion that lead to the 4 gauge forces, wormholes, dark matter/energy and baryonic matter/energy as well as antimatter, and later astronomical evolution, leading to life, etc

This is mumbo-jumbo

Part of me [wants to] thinks he is taking the piss, out of both Sci-fi and you in this thread. The rest of me thinks not.

[KrazyHorse]

I didn't read it all the way through. Just the first couple of lines and then the last one.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


There are at least 2000-3000 people in the world who know more high energy theoretical physics than I do.

Even in what's beginning to look like my specialty (non-standard Higgs phenomenology) there are still a few dozen who know more than I do.

Phenomenology?

I knew there was something with you.

[KrazyHorse]

I get the joke, but

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(particle_physics)

[MattBowron]

science fiction involves using some basis in scientific theories to make the fictional events depicted therin seem possible or at least plausible.

For instance: The Last Theorem by Mark Alpert, where he discusses the idea of particles being "geons" and the use of "sterile neutrinos" to make basically a wormhole that can be used as a laser weapon.

I'm just trying to design the physics for the world I'm setting the story in so that there's consistency in events and themes mentioned in the stories, while attempting to bring up discussion about potential real-world subjects, such as history, science, spirituality, philosophy, technological progression, social and cultural development and the like.

To sum it all down, the questions are for my world-building, in which the basis of the story is a theory that links fictional-analogues of real world physics based phenomena.

But I want it to seem plausible at least, hence the questions.

[Jon Miller]

My suggestion is to go with what is plausible to you, because that will also be what is plausible to your readers. Save the plausible more advanced stuff for those physicists/scientists who are also science fiction writers.

And since the other things you mentioned are more important, why try for the other?

The best you could do is get someone to write it for you or to spend the time and effort to learn it yourself (which not everyone is capable of).

Basically: Don't write hard science fiction unless you are a scientist.

JM