Claudie wrote:oldhousejunkie wrote:This is your problem. I somehow don't see writers and scientists getting along too well. We're on opposite sides of the brain!
But.. but... what do you do with scientists that are writers?
I'd like it said that research takes a lot more of imagination and creativity than most think. And theoritcal physicists spend their days just
trying to imagine how the world might make sense, without experiments, because we no longer have the technology to test what they theorise. It's super crazy.
I have to agree with Chantelle (and oldhousejunkie), though, that this being fiction, you don't need a physicist's approval seal. Your premise is great, and I don't think readers will roll their eyes at it. Build your world (do ample research) and knock yourself out.
I was a bit angry when I opened this thread. Truth be told I never even wanted the Physics stamp of approval.It was an assumption he made along with the fact that he assumed I wanted to have a character with blue skin and one eye, and a green sky. In fact this guy had made some wild assumptions that I never even dreamed of. This guy I am speaking of said that those " theoritcal physicists" aren't true scientist But actually are rationalist and not true scientists.
So in the end I have decided to just do it and expect that some will
and who cares.
Hillsy wrote:Right - this won't help much but....
...Follow character. The Uncle doesn't have to understand - MC has to understand. You don't need to be right, you just need to 'prove' your character will believe. This is the crux of everything in fiction pretty much. For example: A character has to believe his wife is cheating on him to get the payoff that she's been going to a cancer clinic. If you think "There's no way he'd put the evidence together like that!" then - boom - authority destroyed.
Looking at what you said your only problem would be backstory. If your MC is like me, someone who only has initimte knowledge of 95% of complex physics, but knows 'of' the other 5% - then yeah, it's plausible she'd make assumptions and approximations based on the knowledge she posseses. By asking the heavy-science forums the question,what you've got is the textbook reaction of someone, perhaps like her uncle, who simply does not accept what has just happened, happened. This is a good thing: conflict. If she's then logically minded enough to apply the axiom "When you have eliminated the probable then whatever remain, not matter how implausible, must be the truth" you've got the launchpad for her to dismiss current Multi-dimensional theory as wrong, or grasp a supernatural explanation, or turn to religion, or any number of things.
So follow the character, use her history and personality to describe it, then apply the same to the Uncle.
Like I said - not really an answer....sorry...=0(
Actually You are wrong You did help more than you realize.
what you've got is the textbook reaction of someone, perhaps like her uncle, who simply does not accept what has just happened, happened. This is a good thing: conflict. If she's then logically minded enough to apply the axiom "When you have eliminated the probable then whatever remain, not matter how implausible, must be the truth" you've got the launchpad for her to dismiss current Multi-dimensional theory as wrong, or grasp a supernatural explanation, or turn to religion, or any number of things.
This was exactly what I decided do to with what I learned from the Physics board actually!
Still I wonder how anyone could have so little imagination
shakes head 
