Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Question time! Toby Daye trivia is fun.

Since I have a book coming out in a week, I figure it's time to once again offer to answer your questions about the world. So...

I will make five blog posts detailing aspects of Toby's universe. Ask me anything! I will not answer every question, but will select the five that I think are the most interesting/fun/relevant, and will detail them to my heart's content. There's a lot to learn and know, and asking loses you nothing.

Leave your questions on this post. I'm declaring comment-reply amnesty for any that I choose not to answer this time, since otherwise, my wee head may explode.

Game on!

ETA: Things covered last time we did this: inheritance, fosterage, madness, historical records, and Cait Sidhe court structure.
Tags: a few facts, common questions, silliness, toby daye
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kiarasayre

August 30 2011, 21:36:31 UTC 5 years ago

We know a little bit about the intersection of science and magic in Toby's world, but is there any more formal (albeit secret) research infrastructure there? Underground journals? Fae assistants at particle accelerators running small experimental spells to see what the effect of the Higgs-Boson is on charms? Confused fae genealogists desperately trying to use fae pedigrees to study selection effects? Et cetera? (Honestly, I could go on forever. [/nerdiness])

alitalf

August 30 2011, 22:27:31 UTC 5 years ago

Interesting: I wonder if there is a subatomic particle (or particles) that carries magic, as there are ones that carry charge? There'd probably need to be three more quarks, undetectable by conventional science...

cgbookcat1

August 31 2011, 05:02:51 UTC 5 years ago

I suspect that fae nuclear physicists would be more theoretical than experimental, because there is a great deal of steel and iron (big magnets and beam lines) around most labs. However, if they figured out a way around this I think they would fit in quite well . . . no one is going to care about someone's ears shifting at dawn, since you tend to start to see things at the end of a 12am-8am shift anyway.

keristor

August 31 2011, 06:10:02 UTC 5 years ago

Ceramic magnets, superconducting non-ferrous magnets, I seem to remember that solid oxygen is magnetically active. They may have to build their own particle accellerators though.

Ah, there's a point -- could they accellerate particles to near lightspeed using magic instead?

cgbookcat1

August 31 2011, 07:00:50 UTC 5 years ago

Ah yes, if only we were well-funded enough to buy such things -- perhaps such a scientist could partner with fae involved in banking! They would then have to justify the expense to the journal editors/reviewers.

It would take a lot of magic, because it takes a lot of energy (depending on what type of particle you are trying to accelerate and what you want to do with it). There must be metabolic equations relating magic and energy, right?

alitalf

August 31 2011, 13:11:49 UTC 5 years ago

{fx: shambles forwards very slowly} "Branes!"

Srsly, would the Summerland be situated along another dimension among the 11 (or is it more now) hypothesised in string theory? Maybe the conservation of energy is obeyed by shunting mass/energy to another 'brane?

seanan_mcguire

September 8 2011, 21:26:08 UTC 5 years ago

This is a lovely question; it will be answered someday.