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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
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| 8:44a |
Writing science fiction; getting stuck on an off-the-wall science question; afternote...
First and foremost: I am more grateful than I can begin to tell you, for all your excellent comments and responses and suggested solutions to my problem with this short story; thank you, one and all.
And then, to go on with....
I'm thinking. Actively.
I'm thinking about how I might find a way to respond adequately to your posts without writing something forty pages long. [I promise not to post something forty pages long.]
Reading your posts over and over again, I am beginning to suspect that for many of you the word "science" (and the phrase "hard science") mean something other than what those two items mean to me. And that perhaps the sentence "And within the boundaries of the story I'm writing, the problem is independent of the theological question" means something to you that's different from what it means to me. I'm not sure how to approach those differences. I'm working on it, and am sorry not to have made myself more clear.
Thinking, thinking, thinking.... | | 10:31a |
Writing science fiction; getting stuck on an off-the-wall science question; afternote, continued...
I've been looking at that afternote below, and I want to clarify a sentence that I'm afraid may have a snarky look/sound/feel/vibe to it.
I said: "Reading your posts over and over again, I am beginning to suspect that for many of you the word 'science' (and the phrase 'hard science') mean something other than what those two items mean to me."
What I mean by that is not that I'm questioning your scientific expertise, knowledge, credentials, or anything of that kind. I mean only that I suspect that for me the items "science" and "hard science" mean something far simpler, and far less sophisticated, and far more basic, than they do to you.
The last time I remember having this much trouble communicating was way back in the 60s when I was trying to teach a group of assorted middle-aged male university professors how to sing and play the blues... |
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