MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Primary Inversion (1996)
Catherine Asaro
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In this first book in her "Skolian Saga" series, Asaro explains how faster-than-light speeds are attainable by using imaginary numbers, and hence frequent mentions of "imaginary space" occur throughout the book. In fact, although she is not the first person to play with the consequences of allowing complex values in general relativity, Asaro did publish an article in the American Journal of Physics that explains in complete detail how this "inversion" would work if complex valued speeds were available to us.

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GenreScience Fiction,
Motif
TopicMathematical Physics,
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