The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167618 Message #4055126
Posted By: Mrrzy
25-May-20 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: New news *not* about the virus
Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
Asimov wrote a great short story about someone inventing a gravity-less field and putting it, for demo purposes, on a billiards table, asking a rival scientist (poopoo-er) to play. The cue-struck ball took off at the speed of light, punching a hole through the poopoo-ed scientist, because it was actually a mass-less field and things with no mass travel at the speed of light...
Also one about a quantum black hole which punches a microscopic hole with huge tidal effects through another poopoo-ing rival scientist.
Don't poopoo Asimov's science!