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How to convincingly jump between dimensions?

kbanas — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:23:41 -0800

ShortStoryFilter: I'm writing a short story that involves travel between parallel universes, or dimensions, or whatever. You know, kind of like that TV show, Sliders. Unfortunately, my knowledge of science (and physics, in particular) is somewhat lacking. I'd like the superficial pseudo-science I employ to make this happen be at least mildly right minded. Help? So, most of the science fiction books I read as a kid that dealt with this issue did so in a kind of fantastic, mystical way - "Oh ho! Here is a magic door that opens onto a NEW WORLD!" Well, great. Unfortunately, my idea involves actually building a device that accomplishes the same task.

My desire is not to go into brain numbing detail about the damn thing (think Neal Stephenson), but as I gloss over the process of its construction, I would like to sound like I'm using the right buzzwords and pulling from the right fantastical scientific theories.

As we can't actually jump between dimensions, I understand that the term "right" is somewhat subjective, but I think you know what I mean.

For example, I did a little reading on the Philadelphia Experiment, and kept coming across Einstein's Unified Field Theory.

So, you know something about science, you're writing a fictional account of someone building a device in their basement that opens a portal to a parallel world - what kind of components, what kind of technology, is involved in this black box?

Whence slider?

sonofslim — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:52:59 -0800

Why are cheeseburgers called sliders?

Where can I find a javascript slider bar widget?

Hildago — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:55:40 -0800

I need a javascript slider bar widget with a couple of special features. It's easy enough to find a simple slider bar implementation, but I need something that can do the following things:

Have multiple sliders on the same page.
Constrain the possible values for all sliders to a single total. What I mean is that if I had three sliders, the values of all three would add up to no more than, say, 100. So, if sliders A, B & C were all at 33, and I moved slider A to 43, then sliders B & C would each automatically re-adjust to 28.
In a perfect world, I would be able to add or subtract sliders from the page by pushing a button.

I guess I could do this myself in javascript, but I'd rather find somebody else who had done it already and licensed it. I know I've seen controls like this on the Web, but now that I need to find one I'm having no luck.