Posts tagged with “physics”
- noun
- Matter and anti-matter locked in a fine magnetic grid to ward off the outermost perils of space.
- Source
- The Rediscovery of Man
- adjective
- Able to distort time.
- Origin
- Formed from khrónos (time) and the suffix -pathic (abnormality).
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- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
- noun
- A single star containing all the mass in the universe.
- Origin
- Abbreviated from ‘cosmic egg’.
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- The Gods Themselves
- noun
- A material producing an anti-gravity effect.
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- A Fire Upon the Deep
- noun informal
- The Dillon-Wagoner gravitron polarity generator, an anti-gravity device that also enables faster-than-light travel.
- Origin
- Named for the device’s effect on the magnetic moment of atoms within its field.
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- Cities in Flight