Comments on: The science behind FlashForward http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/09/18/the-science-behind-flashforward/ extra dimensions of particle physics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:11:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Fitvideo http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/09/18/the-science-behind-flashforward/comment-page-1/#comment-28666 Fitvideo Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:10:09 +0000 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=5035#comment-28666 While the book looks incredibly interesting , the TV series is just vacuous and boring ... as of episode 2 I really don't care the whys and wherefores ... it just reminds me of Lost, which is also very very boring. Succinct script writng and filming seems to have gone out the window lately as the Channel owners need to extract every last coin out of we who watch so ...stretch it out ...then repeat it again and again and again... regards Fitvideo While the book looks incredibly interesting , the TV series is just vacuous and boring … as of episode 2 I really don’t care the whys and wherefores … it just reminds me of Lost, which is also very very boring.

Succinct script writng and filming seems to have gone out the window lately as the Channel owners need to extract every last coin out of we who watch so …stretch it out …then repeat it again and again and again…

regards

Fitvideo

]]> By: symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Flashforward author Robert J. Sawyer on the LHC, Higgs, and Hollywood http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/09/18/the-science-behind-flashforward/comment-page-1/#comment-27267 symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Flashforward author Robert J. Sawyer on the LHC, Higgs, and Hollywood Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:18:22 +0000 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=5035#comment-27267 [...] a drama series based on Robert J. Sawyer’s science-fiction novel of the same name. While the details of the television series are being closely guarded, nuclear and particle physics is at the heart of the novel. Sawyer’s novel kicks off at CERN, [...] [...] a drama series based on Robert J. Sawyer’s science-fiction novel of the same name. While the details of the television series are being closely guarded, nuclear and particle physics is at the heart of the novel. Sawyer’s novel kicks off at CERN, [...]

]]> By: David Harris http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/09/18/the-science-behind-flashforward/comment-page-1/#comment-26972 David Harris Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:11:02 +0000 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=5035#comment-26972 Thanks for the comment, Robert. We'll send it on to Peter and the people who did the video. By the way, I think the description you have of SNO at the beginning of Hominids is one of the most evocative and interesting literary descriptions of a large science experiment that I have read. Thanks for the comment, Robert. We’ll send it on to Peter and the people who did the video. By the way, I think the description you have of SNO at the beginning of Hominids is one of the most evocative and interesting literary descriptions of a large science experiment that I have read.

]]> By: Robert J. Sawyer http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/09/18/the-science-behind-flashforward/comment-page-1/#comment-26970 Robert J. Sawyer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:57:38 +0000 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/?p=5035#comment-26970 Thanks for the comments in the video, Peter Jacobs. However, the title of the book is FLASHFORWARD, not FAST FORWARD, and despite what you say about "in the novel working with ALICE is depicted as a few people sitting around ...," that's just not true. The novel says, "Lloyd was director of the collaborative group of almost a thousand physicists using the ALICE ('A Large Ion Collider Experiment') detector" [Tor paperback, p. 13, i.e., the third page of the first chapter], and the book vividly shows the large, international, collaborative nature of those working on projects at CERN, as well as making quite clear that it took more than a decade to build the LHC and years to plan each experiment. Thanks for the comments in the video, Peter Jacobs. However, the title of the book is FLASHFORWARD, not FAST FORWARD, and despite what you say about “in the novel working with ALICE is depicted as a few people sitting around …,” that’s just not true.

The novel says, “Lloyd was director of the collaborative group of almost a thousand physicists using the ALICE (’A Large Ion Collider Experiment’) detector” [Tor paperback, p. 13, i.e., the third page of the first chapter], and the book vividly shows the large, international, collaborative nature of those working on projects at CERN, as well as making quite clear that it took more than a decade to build the LHC and years to plan each experiment.

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