Saturday, November 24, 2007
Are you ready for the LHC?
Are you ready for the LHC? Hey, forget about tuning your
Monte Carlo, what you should be reading is the book
"keeping it real" by Justina Robson.
In 2015 the quantum bomb opened up the world to
the realm of Elves, demons and some other things.
The quantum bomb was caused by the explosion of
the superconducting supercollider in Texas. Umm,
yes, perhaps if she had done a little more web surfing
she would have found that that accelerator had been
cancelled in the early 90s. I don't see any acknowledgements,
but perhaps Brian Cox was involved as a consultant,
and he was able to help with his legendary grasp
of particle physics.
The book was a mixture of fantasy and cyberpunk. The heroine
is a cyborg. Science fiction is very different
to fantasy (please don't get the two confused). This cross-genre
was good, because it mixed scifi with fantasy elements such as magic and
elves.
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