{"id":204425,"date":"2025-01-24T03:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/imagining-the-physics-of-george-r-r-martins-fictional-universe"},"modified":"2025-01-24T03:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:49:43","slug":"imagining-the-physics-of-george-r-r-martins-fictional-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/imagining-the-physics-of-george-r-r-martins-fictional-universe","title":{"rendered":"Imagining the physics of George R.R. Martin\u2019s fictional universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imagining-the-physics-of-george-r-r-martins-fictional-universe3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many science fiction authors try to incorporate scientific principles into their work, but Ian Tregillis, who is a contributing author of the Wild Cards book series when he\u2019s not working as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, took it one step further: He derived a formula to describe the dynamics of the fictional universe\u2019s viral system.<\/p>\n<p>In independent research published in the <i>American Journal of Physics<\/i>, Tregillis and George R.R. Martin derive a formula for viral behavior in the Wild Cards universe.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Cards is a science fiction series written by a collection of authors and edited by Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. Sitting at over 30 volumes, the books are about an alien <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/virus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus<\/a> called the Wild Card that mutates human DNA. Martin is credited as a co-author of the paper, making it his first peer-reviewed physics publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many science fiction authors try to incorporate scientific principles into their work, but Ian Tregillis, who is a contributing author of the Wild Cards book series when he\u2019s not working as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, took it one step further: He derived a formula to describe the dynamics of the fictional universe\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}