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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 182774" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>hmmm ........</p><p></p><p>In The Gods Themselves, Asimov posited "free energy" by "pumping" it from an other universe, and consequently the laws of nature change locally, with The Sun comming close to exploding ......</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves</a> .</p><p></p><p>In the later Foundation novels, he has spaceships powered by "gravitational energy" - the closest to Cavorite it's possible to get - but this still slowly changes the laws of physics!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=26" target="_blank">www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=26</a> (note the comments!).</p><p></p><p>(Quite Interesting is: <a href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=579" target="_blank">www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=579</a> ).</p><p></p><p>Just cos something's impossible, that's never stopped people trying .....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm" target="_blank">www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm</a> (fun!).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion</a> (more theoretical).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 182774, member: 192438"] hmmm ........ In The Gods Themselves, Asimov posited "free energy" by "pumping" it from an other universe, and consequently the laws of nature change locally, with The Sun comming close to exploding ...... [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves[/URL] . In the later Foundation novels, he has spaceships powered by "gravitational energy" - the closest to Cavorite it's possible to get - but this still slowly changes the laws of physics! [URL="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=26"]www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=26[/URL] (note the comments!). (Quite Interesting is: [URL="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=579"]www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=579[/URL] ). Just cos something's impossible, that's never stopped people trying ..... [URL="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm"]www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm[/URL] (fun!). [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion[/URL] (more theoretical). [/QUOTE]
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