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Title: Book Eleven gets a working title
Post by: Chaos on September 16, 2009, 05:42:02 AM

So I checked the Schlock archives, and it looks like they've finally been updated.

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Book 11: A Family Anti-Matter (working title)
Our merry band splits into four commands to raise money for repairs. They are going to get interrupted.


    Prologue: Meanwhile, At The Galactic Core
    Part I: High Olympus Command
    Part II: Barsoom Circus Command
    Part III: Credomar Command
    Part IV: Mallcop Command
    Part V: A Family Anti-Matter

I wonder what antimatter has to do with any of this.

Title: Re: Book Eleven gets a working title
Post by: happyman on September 16, 2009, 02:22:23 PM

Since the whole book is named around it, it's should be explosive, whatever it is.

Title: Re: Book Eleven gets a working title
Post by: Recovering_Cynic on September 16, 2009, 02:25:12 PM

There are physics theories (correct me if I'm wrong--it's been five years since I took modern physics) that certain types of matter (dark matter, anti-matter) effect other universes or are a part of them, which is why they cannot be detected in our world.  As Petey is battling creatures from another dimension/universe, well, antimatter might have everything to do with it.

Title: Re: Book Eleven gets a working title
Post by: ryos on September 16, 2009, 09:29:01 PM

Antimatter certainly does interact with our world and is quite easily detected. The presence of dark matter is only inferred by its gravitational pull. Which, I suppose, means it also interacts with our world, just not electromagnetically.

I'll admit as well that I don't really get neutrinos...

Title: Re: Book Eleven gets a working title
Post by: happyman on September 17, 2009, 02:20:32 AM

Quote from: ryos on September 16, 2009, 09:29:01 PM

Antimatter certainly does interact with our world and is quite easily detected. The presence of dark matter is only inferred by its gravitational pull. Which, I suppose, means it also interacts with our world, just not electromagnetically.

I'll admit as well that I don't really get neutrinos...

Neutrinos interact with our world.  They do so presumably gravitationally (not that we've measured it) and via extremely rare interactions mediated by the weak force (this has been the method of performing all measurements to date).  Basically, if something doesn't interact electromagnetically, or decay into a particle that does (e.g. neutrons), we find it very hard to "see".  Presumably, the world could be filled with an enormous varieties of such things and we would be none the wiser.