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Shephardmoon
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I'm working on a sci-fi / noir / mystery novel for my thesis, and I've endowed my femme fatale heroine with the ability to conjure traversable wormholes.
It's important that she be able to do this without the aid of any machine or finite quantity of exotic matter that she would have to somehow carry around with her. The wormholes she makes can be traversed by spaceship or human body alike, and need no anchoring devices on either end.
I realize that this is pure fiction. However, I'd like to lend a subtle flavor of scientific validity to my narrative by at least attempting to describe a legitimate means for wormhole construction, even if this construction couldn't realistically be performed by a human brain.
One idea I had is that this woman could possesses a genetic mutation that gives her some sort of extrasensory ability. I read an interesting study "in which a group of subjects played a simple song on the piano (all of them inexperienced on the instrument) by imagining themselves doing so, and they were able to play as well as [another subject group] who had actually practiced" (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438,00.html).
What's to say that a human couldn't somehow "imagine" a wormhole, and then make one? The process would have to (and should be) more complicated and interesting than my layman description, but that's why I'm here.
Ideas?
(Another thought I had has to do with an article I read about "super-seers," or women who have 4 cones in their eyes versus the average 3, and can thus see colors the rest of us can't. Maybe a similar ability would allow my heroine to "see" spacetime constituents and manipulate them? http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision)
It's important that she be able to do this without the aid of any machine or finite quantity of exotic matter that she would have to somehow carry around with her. The wormholes she makes can be traversed by spaceship or human body alike, and need no anchoring devices on either end.
I realize that this is pure fiction. However, I'd like to lend a subtle flavor of scientific validity to my narrative by at least attempting to describe a legitimate means for wormhole construction, even if this construction couldn't realistically be performed by a human brain.
One idea I had is that this woman could possesses a genetic mutation that gives her some sort of extrasensory ability. I read an interesting study "in which a group of subjects played a simple song on the piano (all of them inexperienced on the instrument) by imagining themselves doing so, and they were able to play as well as [another subject group] who had actually practiced" (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438,00.html).
What's to say that a human couldn't somehow "imagine" a wormhole, and then make one? The process would have to (and should be) more complicated and interesting than my layman description, but that's why I'm here.
Ideas?
(Another thought I had has to do with an article I read about "super-seers," or women who have 4 cones in their eyes versus the average 3, and can thus see colors the rest of us can't. Maybe a similar ability would allow my heroine to "see" spacetime constituents and manipulate them? http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision)