![]() In myth, Kronos uses an adamantine sickle to castrate his father Uranus in Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is bound to rocks "in adamantine bonds infrangible" in Virgil's Aeneid, columns of solid adamantine protect the gates of Tartarus in Paradise Lost, adamant and adamantine are mentioned eight times to describe the gates of hell, Satan's shield, fallen angel's armor and Satan's chains. Adamant or adamantine (suffix -ine 'of the nature of' or 'made of') occur in many works. The English word is both a noun and an adjective from Latin adamans 'impregnable, diamondlike hardness very firm/resolute position', from Greek adamastos 'untameable' (hence also the word diamond). Langart), Psichopath, Analog Science Fact & Fiction, British edition, (February 1961), pp.Fictional elements and materials NameĪdamant has long meant any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance and, formerly, a legendary stone or mineral of impenetrable hardness and many other properties, often identified with diamond or lodestone. Bizony, Atom (Icon Books, London, 2017), p. Mallonee, The strange, totally not true story of a cursed physicist, (March 2016), Clegg, Extra-Sensory (St Martin’s Press, New York, 2013), p. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Pan Books, London, 1975), p. Forshaw, The Quantum Universe (Penguin, London, 2011), p. ![]() Lem, The new cosmogony, in A Perfect Vacuum, (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1981), pp. Ćirković, The Great Silence (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018), p. Giles, Chuang Tzu, dream and reality, in Gems of Chinese Literature, Afshordi et al., From Planck Data to Planck Era: Observational Tests of Holographic Cosmology. Maldacena, The illusion of gravity, Scientific American (April 2007), Horgan, Why string theory is still not even wrong, Scientific American (27 April 2017), Clegg, Gravity (Duckworth Overlook, London, 2012), pp. Woo, Will we ever travel through wormholes? BBC Future (26 March 2014), ī. ![]() Thorne, Wormholes in space time and their use for interstellar travel. Kaku, Parallel Worlds (Penguin, London, 2006), p. Torchinsky, The painful truth about NASA’s warp drive, Jalopnik (June 2014), Clegg, Final Frontier (St Martin’s Press, New York, 2014), pp. David Mermin, Could Feynman have said this? Physics Today (May 2004), ī. Kaku, Parallel Worlds (Penguin, London, 2006), pp. Gribbin, Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution (Black Swan, London, 2013), p. Johnston, What ever happened to tachyons? Armagh Planetarium Astronotes (May 2013), Benford, Timescape (Sphere Books, London, 1982), pp. Webb, All the Wonder that Would Be (Springer, Switzerland, 2017), p. Blish, Spock Must Die (Bantam Books, New York, 1970), pp. Clegg, Ten Billion Tomorrows (St Martin’s Press, New York, 2015), p. ![]() Blish, Beep, in Galactic Cluster, (Four Square, London, 1963), pp. Webb, All the Wonder that Would Be (Springer, Switzerland, 2017), pp. Blish, Cities in Flight (Avon Books, New York, 1970), pp. Blish, Cities in Flight (Avon Books, New York, 1970), p. Wikipedia article on “Patrick Blackett”, Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Project Gutenberg edition, ī. Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989), p. Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989), pp. ![]() Rae, Reductionism (Oneworld, London, 2013), p. University of California at Berkeley, Understanding Science 101, Ī. Okuda, Star Trek: the Next Generation Technical Manual (Boxtree, London, 1991), p. Gale (screenplay), Back to the Future (Amblin Entertainment, 1985) ![]()
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