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james_davis_nicollDo SF authors make up new elements? The elements don't seem to be in Seaborg's island of stability, either.
Actually, what I really mean is why would the sort of person who can't be bothered to look at a table of elements or think about the general decline in half-lives as atomic mass increases past a certain point bother with SF? What's the attraction for them?
Actually, what I really mean is why would the sort of person who can't be bothered to look at a table of elements or think about the general decline in half-lives as atomic mass increases past a certain point bother with SF? What's the attraction for them?
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Date: 2009-04-27 08:50 pm (UTC)(1)Because they can.
(2)Because Plotzmium-489 sounds real cool.
(3)Do you really need any more reasons than that?
Seriously, Richard Wadholm somehow made it work in "Green Tea" (Asimov's Oct-Nov 1999, Dozios' Year's Best 17, Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13th).
(By the way, did you notice that your graph is made of Legos?)
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Date: 2009-04-27 10:47 pm (UTC)