Working on something for a workshop, I recently got stuck on a technical question. Well the problem was trying to think a way to do something impossible involving a well-known speculation. If you accept the idea that parallel universes exist, how do you get to one and back and how do you find a specific one that you where aiming for?
Admittedly I was terrible at physics at school, which might not be helping. I have thought of one way but it is very vague for the minute. It probably isn’t going to have much of a solid scientific explanation either. It could work for the context of the story though.
This is a common problem though I think. At a certain point, scientific accuracy has to leave the room for the story to continue. I think we can all think of one example, where we have spotted some factual detail, there to show us that the writer has done some research.
Also re-read ‘Interview with the Vampire’ by Anne Rice. Given the latter entries in this series, it is actually rather interesting. It becomes in places a discussion on the New World which lacks God and morality and so makes the vampires the walking dead in that sense. They live in a universe where they have moved themselves beyond morality and then want it back and find they can’t. Well that was my reading of the character of Louis anyway. I also remembered ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’. Both are about a young man given immortality and have sensual writing amid moral decline.
