How does telepathy work?
How does telepathy work?
Now given that telepathy doesn't actually exist, it's a bit difficult to come up with good physics...
However, this is Stargate, and thus any reasonably convincing pseudoscience will do. :)
I have a character with a limited degree of telepathy/empathy. Usually comes across as being lucky at playing cards, guessing what people will do next, that kind of thing. Rarely extends to actual mind-reading (except when under the influence of things caused by aliens/alien technology/etc.).
It has no distance limitation (we're talking interstellar here), but definitely words best in physical proximity.
It also works best with people the telepath has an emotional connection with.
I have a couple of canonical alien devices that can heal/tweak human physiology. (Hey, this is Stargate SG-1, they have stacks of alien artefacts that have to be shipped to Area 51, so they can't be used to solve a problem in the next episode.... I'm shipping some of them out again )
What can I do in terms of pseudoscientific explanation (because I like my pseudoscience to be as close to real science as possible) to describe/manipulate this ability?
I'd love to come up with something that included electromagnetic radiation, but as far as I can see, the lack of a distance limitation means that speed of light screws up that theory.
Anyone care to suggest mechanisms by which telepathy might work?
Let your imagination run riot!
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Now given that telepathy doesn't actually exist, it's a bit difficult to come up with good physics...
However, this is Stargate, and thus any reasonably convincing pseudoscience will do. :)
I have a character with a limited degree of telepathy/empathy. Usually comes across as being lucky at playing cards, guessing what people will do next, that kind of thing. Rarely extends to actual mind-reading (except when under the influence of things caused by aliens/alien technology/etc.).
It has no distance limitation (we're talking interstellar here), but definitely words best in physical proximity.
It also works best with people the telepath has an emotional connection with.
I have a couple of canonical alien devices that can heal/tweak human physiology. (Hey, this is Stargate SG-1, they have stacks of alien artefacts that have to be shipped to Area 51, so they can't be used to solve a problem in the next episode.... I'm shipping some of them out again )
What can I do in terms of pseudoscientific explanation (because I like my pseudoscience to be as close to real science as possible) to describe/manipulate this ability?
I'd love to come up with something that included electromagnetic radiation, but as far as I can see, the lack of a distance limitation means that speed of light screws up that theory.
Anyone care to suggest mechanisms by which telepathy might work?
Let your imagination run riot!
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth where it has
comments.