Post by spaniardx on Sept 7, 2021 20:03:25 GMT -5
The MEGA Drive works by making a stack of piezoelectric crystals alternately heavier and lighter by applying electric current to them. Actually, this is not some kind of New Age healing crystals; piezoelectric crystals do expand and contract under the influence of electricity, essentially interacting with what Einstein says are universal inertial fields in the universe, caused by gravity.
If Anne McCaffrey had known about this, I wonder what color crystals she would have chosen in her Crystal Singer?
And if MEGA Drive proves viable, it will become one of the rare instances when science fiction is vindicated and transformed into scientific fact.
Not as rare as the writer of this piece would like to think (or they have a very narrow definition of science fiction).
Was talking to grandspawn about this this afternoon and couldn't really get the point across. I'll need to figure out how to send him the link in a text.