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[farsighting]

Hey! So these questions may be sooooooo weird but I'm super curious!!

My friend was telling me a while ago about how she met some different people here, like a lizard (!) and stuff. That's kind of weird where we come from so I was wondering how many other people here aren't exactly human and from different places.

- Are you non-human / Do you know any non-humans?
- Where are you from? Like a different planet or world or something? How does that even work lol?
- Is there non-human stuff in your world? Not like animals and bugs, but aliens or stuff like that. Weirder stuff!
- Do they have phones and stuff where you come from? Cuz there's a looooot of people here who seem kind of tech illiterate.

Sorry if this is super weird. I'm kinda new and the only strange stuff my world has is zombies. Also even if you are a regular person you can answer the other stuff too, like getting to know each other!

( This may be information harvesting and a way to make sure Elise doesn't assume the sentient creatures in this place are monsters of the week she needs to smash. Or it's something way more innocent. Who's to say! )

Comments

[einselective]

Much as chemical catalysis speeds up reactions, it's simply manipulation of the energy in a system through observation and measurement of quantum state transformations. Quantum thermodynamics IS an interesting and specialized field, but without a grounding in the last 20 years of advances, frankly I'm not sure where to begin.

[farsighting]

Wow that's a lot.

How do you get interested in something like that in the first place?

[einselective]

The field was in its infancy during my postgraduate studies. It seemed like a good career move, and it was. It's easier to make high-impact publication in a realm that few people have studied.

[farsighting]

A "making lots of money" good career move or "total life fulfillment" good career move?

I admit though, I dooooon't really know what the practical applications of something like that would be.

[einselective]

There's something to be said for discovering new things that nobody else has uncovered before. Or at least that was what I thought.

There are of course numerous industrial applications for advanced heating and cooling technology, not to mention paving the way for more advanced materials science.

[farsighting]

All it makes me think about is a big pizza oven and a big fridge to put it in.