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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?
catbhn21:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 09 Apr 2008, 22:50 ---Actually, if the neutron had been discovered just a few years earlier than it was, then the Germans might have developed the atomic bomb first (remember that a significant chunk of the talent at Los Alamos had been forced to flee Germany). As for where they'd test it? They'd test it in the ocean, just as we often did.
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My chemistryTA claims that actually, the problem (good thing really) was that they went for a fusion bomb. An 50s nuclear bomb is a fission bomb, which is considerably easier to create/control. Fusion bombs (i.e.hydrogen bombs) were too difficult to make with the chemical knowledge of the time. Apparently, all the smart guys were there, they were just working on the wrong project...so...yeah. Yay Chemistry!!
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: Norton Quintessential on 11 Apr 2008, 17:12 ---True, but then, I hate Hannelore. :wink:
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Fine then, the main character (lower middle-class) can afford a sentient robot. :-P
Turtle:
I'm sticking with "It's nearly identicle with slight tweaks in technology". You can assume from some of the references made that the world is largely similar (Pintsize's Lincoln and Castro beards, for instance), so I like to think that an Einsteinian (Amazing word) person was born that helped humans make the leap in technology that we have not.
Norton Quintessential:
I agree with turtle, though not necessarily his spelling of identical :wink:.
Turtle:
Now I feel silly. I'm usually a spelling nazi to myself.
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