idea I just had for a story....

[spacefire]

In order to gain technological advantage, a country hires a team of crack scientists and engineers (and their families most likely) and puts them in an university town that is self-contained in terms of power and supplies. Then a field of sorts is generated around the locality, accelerating time inside it by orders of magnitude.<br />The scientists work on theoretical issues while the engineers build gadgets, their time moving much faster than the time outside of the field. After ten years, the field is stopped, and for the rest of the universe only a day has passed. The engineers and scientists are invited to share the results of their work, and get paid humongous amounts of money, naturally, for having been imprisoned for so long.<br />It's the reverse of time travel <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[SpeedFreek]

Just some (hopefully constructive) thoughts because I think you'll need to flesh out the idea further <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />It sounds like a promising idea, but would need the results of their work to be something far more impressive than the already very impressive time accelerating field. How long did they take to develop the "time field" before this grand enterprise could take place?<br /><br />If they already have technology that can mess about with the fabric of space-time, what new technological advantage do they need, and more to the point, why do they need it? What are they going to do with something like that? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>

 

[lampblack]

<font color="yellow">If they already have technology that can mess about with the fabric of space-time, what new technological advantage do they need, and more to the point, why do they need it? What are they going to do with something like that?</font><br /><br />Obviously... they need to research how to respond to the impending attack of Cooties from Outer Space. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[spacefire]

say that technology was discovered by accident. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[plutocrass]

I like it, but a problem.

 

[plutocrass]

How does entering a strong gravitational field affect your perception of time?

 

[spacefire]

I didn't say the field was gravitational in nature.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[plutocrass]

So there's no gravity? I don't get it. Is this town orbiting a planet?

 

[spacefire]

no, the time aqccelerating field has no gravity effect. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[ordinary_guy]

Outside the problems already address, it also sounds a little like "Eureka."<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p style="font:normalnormalnormal12px/normalTimes;margin:0px"><strong>Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.</strong></p> <p style="font:normalnormalnormal12px/normalTimes;margin:0px">-Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)</p> </div>

 

[spacefire]

darn, somebody already imagined that? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>