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#WritersCoffeeClub Have you ever included real-world disproven science in a work?
For sure!
I write SF/F and try to make the ideas crunchy. So I probably have written stuff that relied on subsequently-disproven science, *or* used the disproven stuff anyway because I like to play what-if games with the implications of ideas: "yes, but WHAT IF phlogiston theory was true? What would be the implications for stochiometry? Or steam engines and heavier-than-air flight?"
@cstross Well phlogiston would obviously have to have negative mass so heavier than air flight would be uneconomic compared to phlogiston filled dirigibles.
@cstross For my part, I'm pretty sure that if FTL works at all, it won't be a jump drive. And Dyson spheres, while a fun idea, are out of the question too.
One example is David Weber and the Honorverse series.
Light moves at light speed but gravity waves move at infinite speed. Makes for more interesting in universe story telling 🙂🤷♂️
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