05-24-2003, 12:15 AM
Hi,
If cold fusion . . .
Sorry, but did I miss something? I don't remember any mention of cold fusion, just fusion.
On the other hand, it might involve sieving information out of thousands of intertwined, continually changing variables and passing this into hundreds of feedback parameters, and doing so fast.
And it might not. But, even if we allow your assumption, there is a fundamental flaw. That's with the concept of *fast*. Do you mean "human fast" (about a tenth of a second) or do you mean "nuclear reaction fast" (about a ten billionths of a second -- a shake). Sorry, but the human mind controlling nuclear processes is *not* a good assumption for sf. For fantasy, maybe.
--Pete
If cold fusion . . .
Sorry, but did I miss something? I don't remember any mention of cold fusion, just fusion.
On the other hand, it might involve sieving information out of thousands of intertwined, continually changing variables and passing this into hundreds of feedback parameters, and doing so fast.
And it might not. But, even if we allow your assumption, there is a fundamental flaw. That's with the concept of *fast*. Do you mean "human fast" (about a tenth of a second) or do you mean "nuclear reaction fast" (about a ten billionths of a second -- a shake). Sorry, but the human mind controlling nuclear processes is *not* a good assumption for sf. For fantasy, maybe.
--Pete
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