{"id":9323,"date":"2011-07-22T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2011-07-22T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T08:00:54","slug":"been-there-done-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9323","title":{"rendered":"Been There, Done That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the Microscope: Fringe<\/a><\/p>\n

In Fringe<\/em>\u2019s third season finale, for instance, Whitman and Chiappetta contacted physicist (and Exchange consultant) Sean M. Carroll for a particularly puzzling wormhole\/radiation conundrum. \u201cIn the finale, which is set in 2026, a wormhole is opened in the middle of Central Park,\u201d explains Whitman. \u201cWhat we wanted the characters to realize, in a couple of lines of dialogue, is that the wormhole leads to a specific point in time, 250 million years ago. So the question was, what could they detect coming out of the wormhole that would allow for that conclusion?\u201d
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\nBoiling it down to a few lines of dialogue was not an easy task, but with Carroll\u2019s help, the two story editors found a conceivable explanation. \u201cWe needed something that could make people go \u2018Aha! That\u2019s connected to another period of time!\u2019\u201d says Carroll. \u201cWe threw around a couple of ideas and [Whitman and Chiappetta] settled on an unknown form of radiation.\u201d Since the season finale is set in the future, it is possible that scientists could discover a new form of radiation. So, Whitman and Chiappetta \u201cdiscovered\u201d kappa radiation, which became the series\u2019 tell-tale sign that a wormhole goes through time, not space. \u201cIt\u2019s not something that exists in known physics,\u201d says Carroll, \u201cbut it is a plausible way that future scientists could tell something fishy was going on.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having been in a vaguely similar position<\/a>, I have to say I think I like the solution. It’s plausible and doesn’t overtly contradict the laws of physics, so it’s within the realm of science fiction’s poetic license. They key is using it consistently and not going to that well too often, as I think Star Trek eventually did, which is precisely why I didn’t<\/em> want to come up with a specific name and new kind of particle when I had the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under the Microscope: Fringe In Fringe\u2019s third season finale, for instance, Whitman and Chiappetta contacted physicist (and Exchange consultant) Sean M. Carroll for a particularly puzzling wormhole\/radiation conundrum. \u201cIn the finale, which is set in 2026, a wormhole is opened … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}