Poul Anderson and James Blish fictionalize quantum mechanics:
in Anderson's Technic History, hyperspace is a series of quantum jumps;
in Anderson's Time Patrol series, a time traveller arriving from a merely potential timeline is like a macroscopic quantum event;
in Blish's "Nor Iron Bars," an interstellar spaceship given negative mass collapses into the microcosm where its occupants experience quantum phenomena;
spatially distant particles interacting instantaneously become a means of interstellar travel in "Nor Iron Bars" and of instantaneous communication in Blish's "Beep"/The Quincunx Of Time.
I think that Blish is ahead of Anderson in terms of quantum fiction.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But I think Anderson stuck better either to what was scientifically known or likely at the time he wrote a particular story. Or made more convincingly plausible rationalizations for "advances" beyond what was then known. Last, I can't take seriously stories like Blish's "Surface Tension," with its impossible premise of micro-miniaturized human beings!
Ad astra! Sean
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