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Rigorous Science Modelling a monstrous transformation - generalized logistic function fitting.

I'm spitballing a story where the main character goes through a monstrous transformation. Part of the conceit / my enjoyment is that she's an oncology researcher and will be tracking the transform...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by pureferret ‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Entropy, enthalpy, and energy through rapid mitosis

So I'm pretty new to chemistry and all this, but my world involves superpowers, which of course involves immense energy to have the characters use these powers. However, I want to stay consistent w...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Strivs‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Strivs‭

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Q&A How much volume does a liquefied human take?

A group of aliens are off to save the human race from extinction caused by a Lovecraftian monstrosity. In order to accomplish this feat, they go to Earth in order to harvest as many humans as po...

8 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Seraphim‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Seraphim‭

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Q&A Specific gravity change for my world

Ok, so this is a culmination of a few questions into one final question: am I doing this right? I am trying to figure out the gravitational difference from one end of a continent to another. There ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by NRJohnson‭

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Q&A Can cherenkov effect be used for telling how fast FTL spaceship moves?

Imagine an alternate universe where FTL do happens, let's just say the inhabitants discovered a hypothetical particles that allows ordinary matter to temporarily be in superposition of any amount o...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Procedurally generating a galaxy's worth of names

Background I am investigating the practical utility and limitations of a procedural-generation-based naming scheme for stars and other notable or significant interstellar structures (e.g. nebulae,...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by rek‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by rek‭

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Q&A How can early people prove that their planet is a cuboid?

Imagine a cuboid planet with a thick atmosphere orbiting a star similar to our Sun. The inhabitants are as intelligent as humans and recently discovered the universal laws of gravitation and motion...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A How can a race incapable of conceiving discrete quantities evolve?

Shamelessly inspired by this question, where a race was capable of counting only 0, 1 and "˜many', I have designed a yet more extreme race!! The Continuuoids are a pretty complex race. They can so...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Joe Bloggs‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Joe Bloggs‭

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Q&A How can sapient beings engineer transportation and building when they can only count 0, 1 and many?

Imagine a species of humanoid beings living on an Earth-like planet somewhere in the universe; they have developed complex spoken and written languages and they can study their own anatomy and the ...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Would you notice, visually, if the planet you were on was vastly larger than Earth?

By that I mean, if you are travelling about on a continent on a planet with a circumference similar to the Sun, how much further would you be able to see, and would it be noticeable, without more c...

7 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by MartinArrJay‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by MartinArrJay‭

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Q&A Maximum Size Limit for a Wooden-and-Bamboo Neo-Ziggurat

There is a concern that's been brought up only recently--steel and concrete buildings are environmentally wasteful. In further clarification, they waste away too much greenhouse gases. And consid...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A If aliens exist, do you think that they ever discovered/created their own Math?

Let's say that the aliens exist, do you think that they are smart enough to create their own Mathematics? Or even their own Sciences?

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Sergio Marquez‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Sergio Marquez‭

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Q&A What would be the mathematical formula to figure out a person's weight on a world bigger or smaller than Earth?

Okay, trying to figure out this math guys! This may be simple math to some of you, but not me!!! I googled various ways of asking this question and got some good results, but I'm looking for a sim...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by J.J. Hartly‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by J.J. Hartly‭

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Q&A What kind of mathematical disciplines would be most useful for physics?

I'm worldbuilding a story, where a famous string theorist hires a student of mathematics to try construct a new theory. For better drama, my premise of the story is that the student never learned m...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by kasaca‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by kasaca‭

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Q&A Velocity Difference From Teleportation

In Steven Gould's Jumper series, the main character has the ability to teleport, and he eventually realizes he automatically does frame matching when doing so - no matter where on earth his origin ...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Trevortni‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Trevortni‭

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Q&A Mathematics of monsters

Researching for a science fiction novel. My character loves math + I have dyscalculia = Problem. Therefore, I need your help. In my story, there are aliens we can see, but we can't hear or touch. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Shalon Sims‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Shalon Sims‭

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Q&A Population Growth of an Extraterrestrial Colony

Okay, i need help here. I'm sure this question has been asked before and if it has, please refer me to it. But a story I have been working on for a while now revolves around the adventures of a col...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Noah‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Noah‭

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Q&A How much would a 3" human male weigh?

In my world, which has an Earth-like gravity and environment, an adult, fit humanoid male is 3 inches tall. When I do a simple ratio calculation, I come up with him weighing 7.9 pounds. Basically, ...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Adam Orth‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Adam Orth‭

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Q&A Mathematics without Logic

Can there be a different kind of mathematics with different sets of rules? That is without inference and axioms. One attempt might be Stephen Wolfram's "New Kind of Science", but I am not sure that...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Haider‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Haider‭

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Q&A Terraform Mars or Dyson Ring?

Background: The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is the closest and richest source of non terrestrial resources to Earth in the solar system. Even though it is vast its resources are ob...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by anon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by anon‭

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Q&A Effects of a supermassive ship colliding with a planet

The basis of my story revolves around a single survivor escaping a massive colony ship gone critical above the skies of an alien world. After his escape via escape pod, the ship crashes halfway acr...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Don'tQuestionTheMuse‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Don'tQuestionTheMuse‭

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Q&A Upscaling Insects and the effect resulting upon their biology

Assuming the information in this video by the Cambridge University is correct, Planthoppers can jump as far as a meter. Their size ranges from 1cm in cooler climates to 5cm in the tropics. With ...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Lutro‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Lutro‭

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Q&A At what scale would negative curvature be noticeable (and a nuisance to the flat space society)?

After playing some HyperRogue, I got interested in the use of hyperbolic geometry in WorldBuilding, in particular how an area grows exponentially with respect to its radius. Let's say that the uni...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A How fast could earth orbit the sun without its orbit changing?

It takes the Earth about 365.25 days to orbit the Sun on its current elliptical path. That means it moves about 30 km/s, 2×π×(149,600,000 km)/(1 year). So, given that, how high could Earth's...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Leezard‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Leezard‭

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Q&A Is my celestial coordinate system efficient?

I want to know whether or not my starship's cordinate system is efficient or not. Soon after my race flew into the stars, we realised we needed to be able to tell where we were. We need coordinate ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Obsyden‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Obsyden‭

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Q&A How would a torus world (donut shaped) have to rotate in order to have a stable day / night cycle in all of its regions?

In this universe, mass and gravity work differently so stable torus planets are possible (donut shaped). How would a torus world orbiting a single star have to rotate in order to have a stable da...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Noble‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Noble‭

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Q&A Is there an effective difference between distances in 3d space and higher dimensional space

Note before I begin: I am aware that this might be a Math-heavy question that might be better suited for the math.se Goal: I'd like to use n-dimensional geometry as a method for effectively travel...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Doomed Mind‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Doomed Mind‭

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Q&A Encountering the Accountants : Spreading Numeracy in the Neolithic World

The BBC in the UK are currently screening a archaeology series exploring the idea that the Neolithic peoples in the Orkney Isles (North of Scotland) were the cultural capital of the British Isles. ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

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Rigorous Science Calculating G-Force and Velocity

Simplifying a larger problem. Building a sci-fi text game and I don't want the science to be too wrong. Imagine I have two points in space which are 111,125 kilometers apart and it takes 17 minut...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Curtis Poe‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Curtis Poe‭

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Q&A Accuracy of timekeeping based on the age of Earth

In many countries, we number the years based off of proximity to an event in the Christian religion - we are over 2016 years past that date. However, in this scenario, religion has become less main...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A If I had an alien race, how would they interpret our numerical characters as being numbers?

So say we discovered aliens through a wormhole near Saturn (Interstellar anyone?). Congratz to us! But we have a bigger issue in trying to communicate with them. They developed in a completely dif...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Anoplexian - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Anoplexian - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A What would produce tetration in physics?

In a parallel universe much of the physics equation have tetration in them. There are things such as tetrational growth as well as tetrational decay. $x^x$ and $x^{x^x}$ are also found in some ph...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

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Q&A Airship Aircraft Carrier Dimensions

I'm currently writing a military science fiction story set in a post cyberpunk world I've been building. The story focuses on a tank crew, but it also prominently features an enormous airship that ...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Elijah Decker‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Elijah Decker‭

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Q&A A World Without Mathematics

What significant technologies would be lost in a world without "Advanced" Mathematics? Specifically, what technologies required to get to the next level of scientific progress in an area would be l...

10 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Black‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Black‭