Best selling scifi books. Super portable scientific thoughts

 

Best selling scifi books. Super portable scientific thoughts

Thoughts can be enormous or insignificant, but there are few thoughts, especially scientific thoughts, that can be perfectly portable. And it is their portability that makes them so fascinating for many scifi readers. Because these perfectly portable thoughts possess a unique quality that makes them adjust easily with the scientific imaginations of the scifi readers.  But these thoughts with super portability cannot be devised by all scifi authors, these special thoughts can only be engineered by the minds of scifi authors who do not aim to write #scifibooks, but they aim to write the best selling scifibooks which appeal to the #scifi reader’s imagination effortlessly. With the candour of scifi ingenuity capable of  incubating original and exciting scientific thoughts.

Maybe it will serve a great scientific purpose if this blog post explains, or at least makes a sincere effort to outline the factors that make a scientific thought portable. To the extent that all #scifi readers find it extremely appealing and very befitting to feed their scientific imagination restlessly seeking to grow, and attain that nostrum which would sharpen the scifi reader’s scientific confidence.

So what is this portability of a scientific thought and how do authors of best selling #scifibooks perfect it?

Please allow me to share something with you before we get into this detail.

When we look at the night sky and we see billions of twinkling stars. From where I stand on the planet Earth, all of them appear the same size. Almost all of them. And I happen to look at them from India, since that is where I live. Now, as per astrophysics all stars are placed at varying distances, few are twenty million light years away, a few 30 million light years away, quite a number of them are 40 million light years away, and the range is endless. As per any logic, from where I stand on the planet Earth, all of them should appear to be of varying sizes, when it comes to seeing them with my naked eyes. But it is not so, almost all of them appear to be of the same size. As big as a glass marble shining in the night sky. 

So, for my mind this thought is not portable, unless it is explained by the scifi author why it is so. Because when I look at people walking on the road from my speeding car. People who are nearer to me appear bigger than those people who are farther. And as the car speeds past them, distancing them from me, they keep getting smaller, until they fade away completely due to the increasing distance. 

I know the main logic about why the stars in the night sky appear to be of the same size. 

If a scifi author introduces a similar thought to a scifi reader who is not aware of this logic. This scifi reader will find it less portable because he/she has not received any input from the scifi author to explain why all stars appear to be of the same size. And when that happens the scientific thought being proposed by the scifibook loses its portability.

On the contrary, now let us examine a different scenario. A scifi author who believes in brave and fearless scientific reasoning, proposes something very innovative. According to him/her in the future all physical smart devices will be replaced by a single device that will act as a replacement of all smart devices. 

Now, as a scifi reader I may not know what this device is, but if I am a scifi reader who reads science journals and follows scientific progress with a lot of keenness. I would immediately nod my head in approval, because I know this is possible. 

And when it comes to this scientific idea being proposed by the scifi author it easily gains the scifi reader’s acceptance. Therefore making it a portable scientific thought. But this thought has not achieved its super portability state yet. Because the scifi author does not want to define the way this new generation device would work or how it will be developed.  Although both the scifi author and scifi reader agree that it is possible. 

( Jokes apart, and also sidelining the thematic need of this blog post. Such a device will be the next big thing as far as smart technology is concerned. And it will gain tremendous popularity because it will be like a magic wand of computational processing power. )

Anyway, coming back to the scientific thought that has achieved its super portability.

A scifi author while enthralling his/her readers with his/her scientific imagination, refers to a planet where he/she says something almost unheard of. Please do not jump to conclusions, I know you must be thinking if it is unheard of how can it be a super portable thought. Please allow me to explain. And then you shall have the liberty to decide whether it is a super portable thought or not.

According to this scifi author there is a planet where all flowers are of blue colour with yellow patterns. While the blue shade is uniformly toned , the yellow patterns have varying depths of yellow shade, and these patterns are not the same in all flowers. But, all flowers are blue with these yellow patterns.

At this point, the scifi author has created a strong element of intrigue, and when humans experience anything highly intriguing, they become curious about it. It is human instinct to be curious about what it does not know, with few exceptions though. And it is in these exceptional cases that superstition is born- What the human mind fails to understand, it assigns abstract affiliations to it.

Luckily, there are only two types of scifi readers:

1- Highly liberal in their outlook

2- Not at all superstitious

You must be thinking I am trying to be diplomatically correct, but that is the reality of life. Because fate that plays with us via the most unreliable and often biased referee, called chance, is the most diplomatic of all. And when compared with how diplomatic fate can be, my statement is least diplomatic, because it is based on facts.

So, the scifi reader is intrigued and this turns him/her very curious. Which means he/she will continue reading the #scifibook at all costs. And this also means the scifi author has won half the battle. And now he/she can focus on making his/her thoughts super portable. 

As the scifi reader is interacting excitedly with the scifi book, the scifi author, reminds the scifi readers of the father of genetics. Mr. Mendel. And his explanation about Dominant and Recessive traits.

More on it is available at this link:

https://opentextbc.ca/biology/chapter/8-1-mendels-experiments/

Now the scifi reader gets really excited and he/she begins to feel a rush of self esteem. Because almost all of us know about Mr. Mendel and his study of pea plants that laid the foundation of hereditary traits and genetics.

At this point the scientific thought is now beginning to become portable, but it is still missing that super portability like acceptance from the scifi reader. Because the scifi reader is yet to receive a valid answer to his/her main question- In Mendel's small garden, he intentionally cross bred the pea plants to achieve desired traits. But who the hell played Mendel at such a large scale that it covered the entire planet with these blue flowers. Who did it at such a  large scale? 

Before this question evolves into a doubt, and becomes the very nemesis of the scifi plot, the pragmatic scifi author addresses this question when the scifi reader expects it to be answered. Perfect timing to render the entire scientific idea super portable.

And the scifi author presents the following explanations. For the reading pleasure of the blog, I am presenting these explanations in the first person and assuming I am this scifi writer. 

God save the world, a person of my stature that is stuck in paucity of intellect, is attempting to explain it in the style the best selling scifi author would try explaining it in. But no harm in trying something that makes you feel good and that too without harming someone. So, please allow me to explain while I request you to allow yourself to enjoy reading it with a smile. Afterall, we are getting closer to the super compatible scientiofic thought.

The explanations:

“A beautiful planet that is not blue because there is water everywhere, but it is differently blue. Blue, so perfect that it reminds you only of one artist. God, and nobody else! Because only God could engineer something so beautifully and gracefully blue.

And this is where my spaceship crashed. In the sea of blue. And when I somehow forced myself out of my spaceship, I was taken over by a feeling of beauty, a divine feeling with a quiet surrealness, that sank into me. Freezing me in this moment of ultimate beauty. Making me completely forgetful about my fate and that of my crashed spaceship. Because I had never seen anything so blue and so beautifully blue- The blue sky being complemented by the surface of the planet that was blue, with recurring blue waves interrupted by patterns of yellow. It was as if Mozart and Tansen were working on developing a new melody of beauty. And I was the first one to feel it; and it almost instantly invaded all my senses.

Then somehow, I remembered that I had crashed and I needed to find a means to return to my own blue planet. The planet that is blue due to water. Unlike this planet that was blue due to blue flowers bearing yellow patterns.

After walking for a few miles, I was surrounded by beings who spoke in a language of which I could not make anything. And when I tried to speak to them, they too were clueless about my language. Nevertheless, they led me to their kingdom and there I met their king and queen.

In their palace everything was blue. They seemed to love blue. The king had even named his darling wife “Blue.” How do I know that her name meant blue? Good question.

Because the flowers they presented me and the word the king used to address his wife, the queen, were the same. So, it was an easy guess that both meant blue. Infact this word “blue” was often repeated in their conversations.

I stayed there for more than a year, until their highly efficient engineers repaired my spaceship. And during this time I learned a little bit about their language. And my guess about the queen’s name and the flowers was correct.

Their king and the king’s family loved blue. So they appointed a senior botanist, with a team of florists and many efficient gardeners to populate the entire planet with one of the rarest blue flowers found only on their planet. 

The botanist was very smart. He studied the patterns of the wind. And during the flowering season on the blue flowers he noticed that the wind blew in one direction for a month and then it changed direction.

He planted huge rows of these blue flowers leaving wide spaces between them. And the wind did the rest. It spread the seeds in these vacant rows. And to avoid disappointing the king and the queen. He chose blue flowers whose dominant trait was their blue colour with thin patterns of yellow. And after spending almost a decade on this project he achieved a sea of blue flowers that covered the entire planet.

He was far sighted. This botanist I mean. He could foresee that with just one species of  blue flowers bearing the shade of blue and different shades of yellow patterns as the dominant trait, the native blue flowers will lose their variety, that would kill their natural resistance against pests and other diseases. Therefore under the mountains, in huge swaths of land, he let the native blue flowers grow in their wild and organic settings, undisturbed and untouched by the hand of the botanist and the king as well.

On the day I was supposed to fly back to my own blue planet, they presented me with seeds and flower pots of this majestic blue flower. I felt deeply honoured, because the king and the queen wanted these flowers to grow exclusively on their planet because in a way they represented their planet and their love for each other. Yet they shared these blue flowers with me. It indeed was a gesture of great honour. And I realised it! As I was about to leave, I told the king and the queen just one thing:

“Here, on your planet I understood that loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most!”

The king and his queen understood what I meant and as a parting note they both said, “That is why it is all blue, because in the end all are the same!”

And now would you not agree that the scifi reader has come across the super portable scientific thought! You ought to agree because the scifi author has offered every explanation to port the thought from its portable state to a super portable state. That too with such eloquence that the scifi reader is wonderstruck. And now he/she easily allows this scientific thought to become a part of his/her own imagination.

And this is the wonder of the best selling scifi books. They can create super portable scientific thoughts.

Now, there is a #scifibook that is both. The blue planet and the person who crash lands on this blue planet. While offering the scifi readers many moments of super portable scientific thoughts.

To know what makes this scifi book blue and how it presents so many super portable thoughts, you must read the scifi book titled: They Loved in 2075.

Let me offer you an inkling, one that stirs curiosity.

In the romance #scifibook, They Loved in 2075, humans have lost their ability to love, because they are unable to emote like humans due to their increasing level of interaction with self aware machines. Yet a boy dares to fall in love with a beautiful girl.

But isn't this contradictory! Because humans who cannot emote like humans, how can they fall in love? And that is where this scifi book is unique and that is where it creates its true and original super portable scientific, yet humane and emotionally very deep thought.

If you possess the instinct of curiosity you must read the #scifibook titled: They Loved in 2075. And discover what the wonder of experiencing super portable scientific thought feels like.