{"id":55,"date":"2015-04-17T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-04-17T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:15:24","slug":"mathematics-in-sci-fi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in Sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simmons\u2019 includes two specific formulae in <em>The Fall of Hyperion<\/em>, sqrt(Gh\/c^5) and sqrt(Gh\/c^3); Planck time and length.\u00a0 Forgive the formatting, h is actually supposed to be the reduced Planck constant.\u00a0 Although he says that these are the smallest regions of space and time which can be described meaningfully, he jumps into these \u201cinterstices of reality\u201d which he also calls \u201cThe Void Which Binds.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t know much about quantum mechanics, but the speed of light, c, is supposed to be the limit, the upper bound, the ultimate.\u00a0 So, how can you calculate with the quantity c^5???\u00a0 Seems like that would cause an \u201cout of range\u201d error in the cosmic computer, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simmons\u2019 includes two specific formulae in The Fall of Hyperion, sqrt(Gh\/c^5) and sqrt(Gh\/c^3); Planck time and length.\u00a0 Forgive the formatting, h is actually supposed to be the reduced Planck constant.\u00a0 Although he says that these are the smallest regions of space and time which can be described meaningfully, he jumps into these \u201cinterstices of reality\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}