Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Continuous Creation

James Blish mentions continuous creation in:

Cities In Flight (see here and here) (scroll down);
the Star Trek universe;
the Haertel Scholium.

In Spock Must Die!, a warp-drive adjunct draws energy from Hilbert space, the source of hydrogen atoms, and thus taps continuous creation. Scott says that he would as soon tap into God:

"'I'll ha'e nothin' tae do with thot.'"
-James Blish, Spock Must Die! (New York, 1970), Chapter Thirteen, p. 104.

In Midsummer Century, energy is drawn from the Void, the origin of inner space, but that is not continuous creation which is described as "'...nonsense.'" (3, p. 22)

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