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Originally Posted by CraigD
Moved to the watercooler.
6000000 C, element-transmuting burning inflated rubber, projected force-fields, and cosmic string-plucking nanobots are fun stuff to be sure, but not what one would call engineering or applied science.
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You're quite right. Until scientists have figured out the details and made a working prototype, there's nothing for engineers and technologists to do.
But all science starts with somebody thinking "how did that happen?" Newton with his fabled apple, Curie with the fogged photographic plate, Fleming and his mouldy petri dish... and please don't forget all those unsung heroes of science, the ones who guessed wrong!
How many ideas have died early because the people who thought them up didn't want to sound ridiculous?
Observation. Deduction. Intuition. Gardamorg's cry for help aroused my curiosity. I came up with a possible "how did that happen?" solution. Not testable unfortunately, but I was quite pleased with the way the solution fitted the observations.
The only part I can't get my head around is the sound. Why would hapless quarks being tortured to death make a sort of
whummmm sound? How does turning the force field on and off go
schlupp! ? If some gifted sound-generation expert can explain these points, I'll happily give him or her co-authorship rights. The Donk-Whoever Light Sabre Hypothesis - any takers?
