Oh, cool. Well, there are a couple of other things I can link you to. The link in the comment below is just a general outline of the concept. The premise of the 'verse is a remote storage facility for seemingly magical artefacts decides to start researching said artefacts and determines them Science, not Magic. The next logical step, then, is deciding how to capitalise on these artefacts, use them, replicate them, whatever. So the Ether Engine is constructed to help with research into the boundaries of possibility.
And there may be a step missing between "this is the concept" and "this is how the concept works", but that is how the Engine and its parts work. The rules behind them, at least. More or less.
Now, I know nothing about string theory, but you said you're cool with artistic licence and whatnot, so here goes. According to string theory, the universe is made up of strings, vibrating at different frequencies to create different things. Imagine, then, that these strings are in fact a string quartet, all playing a lovely C chord in their upper registers - the harmony produced is the universe acting in accordance with the basic laws of physics. Then along comes a big arse bass tuba, which proceeds to play a C# - this disrupts the harmony quite a bit, getting the audience quite upset. That bass tuba is the equivalent in the string quartet to exotic particles in our universe, disrupting the natural laws of physics. Those exotic particles are remnants from the above origin story - particles of the two immortal beings torn assunder by Good's Thunder.
If you have any questions, if there are holes in anything, I'd be happy to answer them. In fact, I like questions - they help me create; they require answers.
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Date: 2008-12-07 10:43 am (UTC)This is back story to the universe which provides the basis for... well, everything, by providing the exotic particles that create the pseudomagic.
If you'd like a visual for the Engine, there's one here.
And there may be a step missing between "this is the concept" and "this is how the concept works", but that is how the Engine and its parts work. The rules behind them, at least. More or less.
Now, I know nothing about string theory, but you said you're cool with artistic licence and whatnot, so here goes. According to string theory, the universe is made up of strings, vibrating at different frequencies to create different things. Imagine, then, that these strings are in fact a string quartet, all playing a lovely C chord in their upper registers - the harmony produced is the universe acting in accordance with the basic laws of physics. Then along comes a big arse bass tuba, which proceeds to play a C# - this disrupts the harmony quite a bit, getting the audience quite upset. That bass tuba is the equivalent in the string quartet to exotic particles in our universe, disrupting the natural laws of physics. Those exotic particles are remnants from the above origin story - particles of the two immortal beings torn assunder by Good's Thunder.
If you have any questions, if there are holes in anything, I'd be happy to answer them. In fact, I like questions - they help me create; they require answers.