Telpher Power Conduit

Telpher Power Conduit Telepathic Teleportation of Electric Power Remnant, the fourth novel in my Telpher series, improves the Telpher to provide telepathic teleportation of power over long distances. In addition to teleporting a person, a mini-Telpher can teleport a superconducting electrical cable (ordinary copper cable could also be used). Two mini-Telphers are used, one at…

Telepathic Teleportation

The Telpher: Telepathic Teleportation New Perspectives on a Common Science Fiction Tropeby Steven Eckroad Teleportation is now a reality—at least at the quantum level. It is information, not matter, that is teleported in the subatomic world. Science fiction sometimes invokes quantum teleportation of information to explain teleporting. The information encodes a person’s matter (e.g., for…

Superheavy Elements

Superheavy Elements Stable Superheavy Element found in Nature? This post discusses the chemistry of stable superheavy elements in nature (i.e., not artificially created in nuclear reactions or accelerators). To date none have been found on Earth, though scientists and geologists have searched the world over for the past half century. However, in my novel Copernicium-296…