Dr. Nigel Seel - Contributor
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Science Feature: The Higgs For Dummies
On July 4th it was announced by CERN in Geneva that the Higgs boson has finally been discovered. Sciencefiction.com can now answer your most important questions. 1. Will the Higgs boson help me lose weight? No. 2. I like the sound of this Higgs. Can I buy one for my friend? The... -
Book Review: ‘Triggers’ By Robert J. Sawyer
President Seth Jerrison, the Republican successor to Obama, is giving a speech from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The former History Professor from Columbia is presiding over a nation still at war: Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco have been devastated by a new... -
Science Feature: Android Dolls
“By 2050, Amsterdam’s red-light district will be all about android prostitutes.” This was how Caitlin Moran, a columnist on The Times of London, summed up recent research from two New Zealand academics. Ms Moran suggested that this outcome: ‘would be both ethical and... -
Science Feature: The Infinite Improbability Drive
“Suddenly, a Vogon Constructor Fleet appears in the sky and destroys the Earth. Ford Prefect saves himself and Arthur Dent by hitching a ride on a Vogon spaceship only for the two of them to be discovered and thrown out of the airlock. By some infinitely improbably coincidence,... -
Book Review: ‘How To Make A Big Bang: A Cosmic Journey’ By Andrew And Victor Flambaum
Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ came out in 1726 and was an immediate best-seller. Gulliver, a surgeon and master mariner, encountered a number of bizarre races on his travels: the tiny Lilliputians, the gigantic Brobdingnagians and the uncouth Yahoos. These weird,... -
Interstellar Command: The Ansible
In the Ender’s Game universe (shortly to be made into a film), the human race has barely survived two wars with an alien hive-mind called the Formics, dubbed the “buggers” due to their insect-like appearance. Faster-than-light warships have been dispatched to the... -
Science Feature: Lost In Hilbert Space
In an SF story I was once writing I needed to get the hero out of his closed prison cell. In the old physics, he could simply have blown a hole in the wall with some explosives – but of course, the guards never let him have any. In physics terms, the scientist is trapped... -
Science Feature: Friends and Lovers
You may have first learned your Myers-Briggs personality-type indicator (MBTI) through work. Perhaps you went for a job and they gave you a battery of psychometric tests; or maybe there was a team-building or personal development program and the instructor told you about the... -
Science Feature: The NeoCat
In the early hours I was awakened by paws, patting their silent way across my duvet. Claws slid across my cheek, encouraging my sleep-glued eyes to open. I awoke to behold the neocat as it sat, ghostly-green, on the pillow. ‘Caught-a-vole, caught-a-vole, caught-a-vole!’ it... -
Science Feature: God’s Rod
The Teacher stood at the mouth of the cave and gazed up at the midnight sky. Stars like jewels shone out over the freezing Afghan desert. Deep inside the caverns behind him, his followers were gathered around warm fires, talking quietly and preparing to sleep. From beyond the... -
Science Feature: Our Universe From Nothing At All
Many visitors to ScienceFiction.com will be familiar with the timeline of the Big Bang, the idea that our universe started from some kind of ‘gigantic explosion’ some 13.6 billion years ago. But this is not the version of reality accepted by most cosmologists: their... -
A Retrospective Look At Science Fiction Book ‘Starship Troopers’
With all the news about the ‘Starship Troopers’ remake, we couldn’t help but feel a little bit of nostalgia and decided to revisit the acclaimed book with some discussion. The Action Johnnie Rico jumps to the top of the tallest building in the neighborhood.... -
Science Feature: I Think, Therefore I Am
I first met René Descartes’ famous aphorism, “I think, therefore I am”, when I was a young teen. Naturally I wasted no time in deciding that the Great Man’s thought was trite and glib, a maxim whose proper home was surely the tee-shirt. Later, at university, I took philosophy... -
Science Feature: Newton’s Collapsing Universe
Sir Isaac Newton was possibly the greatest scientist who ever lived. But even great men can make mistakes – it’s just that their errors are more interesting than other people’s. Newton’s law of motion (force equals mass times acceleration) is taught in every high... -
Science Feature: Mind Reading
Michael vectors the hidden camera to a wealthy-looking patron on his first course. A click on the joystick and the second screen lights up: this is the one that reads the client’s mind. Mr. Rich-Guy seems happy enough according to the emotion-bar at the bottom of the display....
Recent Comments
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SRG: I actually thought of this as well. I only just re-watched the Doctor-Donna episode, and t...
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