Loved this to pieces! And I do hope that you decide to have Dawn call Willow in to explain everything to him. Good Gods, the world would implode from the combined intelligence of those two existing in one room.
Sheldon might be able to publish in the "joke" science journals. Or the occult journals (if they exist).
Comments from author:
Thanks! Sheldon would doubtless see occult journals as beneath a serous scientist, and I think Dawn and Penny have managed to quash the idea of publishing in serious journals.
Review By [TroyGuffey] • Date [28 Aug 12] • Rating [8 out of 10]
Would love to see more, even if they are just one shot snippets! Because you know, even if he doesn't say anything...Sheldon won't be able to keep the secret. It will be there in his behaviors, he'll have new phobias, questions about other fantastic creatures, etc.
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True. Penny was wise to run away before he really got going...
Review By [trouvera] • Date [27 Aug 12] • Not Rated
Loved the story, don't know anything about the science.
When I worked for UCL (note; not UCLA) I had a friend who wrote an interesting article about Vampires, unfortunately I've only got it on hard copy somewhere so I can't send it to anyone. Anyway it was all about how fast vampirism would spread and its causes and possible benefits!
D.
Comments from author:
Thanks! No worries about the science, I didn't think it out rigorously, just riffed off the quote which I came across while reading something on cosmology. (Having spent some time at QM, I'm aware the difference between UCL and UCLA is on the order of 5000 miles.)
Review By [DaveTurner] • Date [27 Aug 12] • Not Rated
I'd think that the conservation of mass/energy would be a bigger problem for Sheldon, when a vampire dusts. A cloud of dust clearly has much more entropy than a solid vampire body.
Despite the opinion of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, I think it's the first law of thermodynamics which is pretty much the one which is considered the most incontrovertible.
Comments from author:
Actually, I'm pretty sure they'd both be problematic, though possibly less so for someone working in string theory... given sufficient time, Sheldon could probably resolve the problem.
My degree is not in physics, so I defer to the physicists, but they do seem to all agree that if you're arguing against the 2nd Law, you're either wrong or haven't done your math carefully enough, which is about as close as that bunch come to declaring something incontrovertible...
Review By [DonSample] • Date [27 Aug 12] • Not Rated
As a matter of fact, there has been some very serious academics papers about dealing with the vamps. Altough I think Sheldon would dismiss them because he does not believe Statistics is a Science XD. Cool chapter, see ya!!!.
Comments from author:
Thanks! I believe there have been papers. Academics have a sense of humo(u)r. But Sheldon was going to write about real vampires, not fictional ones... thus the risk of the rubber room!
Review By [Mcspender] • Date [26 Aug 12] • Rating [10 out of 10]
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