If you’re sighted and have experienced a heavy nighttime snowstorm in an illuminated urban area, you know what I’m talking about: the sandwich of light between the snowy white ground and snowy white sky, infusing the landscape with the soft white light of a frosted light bulb--sometimes enough to read by, certainly enough to see by. (It must be ( Read more... )

Searched: "If earth had rings", and simple variations of that ( Read more... )

I am not really sure how to research this ( Read more... )

Setting: Earth and an Earthlike planet with slightly lower gravity, linked by a portal (just step through and you're there ( Read more... )

I’m currently working on a murder mystery set in modern-day South Korea, which starts with a scientist getting his mind swapped with a commoner from the end of the 60’s/beginning of the 70’s, and I’m having difficulty properly explaining the logic (if there is any?) behind this swap. I don’t want to reveal too much, but my (current) background ( Read more... )

Googled: Wikipedia on the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Also this Yahoo! Answers questionI'm working on an original novel about kids with superpowers and I'm trying to establish parameters for the abilities of one character. I've conceived her as able to perceive the entire EM-band and I'm trying to get a grip on the advantages and disadvantages ( Read more... )

This is probably too specific to get a full answer from googling, but I've read the Wikipedia article on fences used for security purposes, have looked at what articles I can find that include prison escapees circumventing electric fences, and have googled various combinations of "electric fence" and climb, escape, etc ( Read more... )

location: alternate Earth with magic, but most of the laws of physics and such are basically the same. Same world discussed hereresearch: honestly wasn't sure what to do here. Mostly going off of the physics classes I had in college and my general knowledge of science. I don't think there are sites that tell you how *not* to break the laws of ( Read more... )

I'm trying to work out the details of a story set in an alternate universe that is much like ours, with some subtle and not-so-subtle differences. I'd love to get opinions (and explanations from more tech-savvy folk than I) on whether it would be plausible for humanity to have developed computers (or at least WWII-era technology, since this was the ( Read more... )

Hey guys, I hope someone can help. I've Googled literally everything I can think of with this one - 'molecules bond separated', 'Hadron Collider discoveries' (because I'm pretty sure when I heard about this it was something to do with the Collider), 'molecules copying each other when separated', AND SO ON ( Read more... )