The Big Idea behind Incandescence

John Joseph Adams | July 22nd 2008 at 9:59 am

Over at The Whatever, John Scalzi is featuring a guest-blog from Greg Egan in which he explains The Big Idea behind Incandescence. Here’s a snippet: "Incandescence grew out of the notion that the theory of general relativity — widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of human intellectual achievement — could be discovered by a pre-industrial civilization with no steam engines, no electric lights, no radio transmitters, and absolutely no tradition of astronomy."

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