Reverse the polarity on the geekium inhibitors!

[pallas_athena]

The best thing I have found today:

Wikipedia's list of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles.

Comments

[fairie-ring.livejournal.com]

Why did I read the whole list? I'm supposed to be revising for an exam in the morning!

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

How did the exam go??

[fairie-ring.livejournal.com]

Fine and dandy in the end. I got to use long words like myocardial infarction and plasmolysis. Hurray!

[library-keeper.livejournal.com]

This is great! I've always enjoyed the bits of fake-science in SF novels ('yes, but there could be sine-waves along the vectors'). This passage from Greg Bear's Eon, which I was reading recently, made me laugh (it's the 'of course' that makes it a classic):

Patrica, somewhat to her surprise, understood the principle immediately. 'Of course!' she said. 'It's like touching the square root of space-time. Try to enter the singularity, and you translate yourself through a distance along some spatial co-ordinates.'

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Hee. Worthy of Doctor Who!