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Published: Nov. 15, 2016, 3:05 a.m.

Alien Ship Technology \n\n

Ship materials construction. Anti-gravity technologies. Tesseracts. Shadows looking into other dimensions.

\n\n Alien Math and Physics \n\n \n Jef Raskin's alien math\n\n

Superdimensionality. Imagining alien understanding of maths and physics. Different perspectives forcing different approaches. The physics\xa0of alien arrivals.

\n\n Linguistic Relativity \n\n

The strong version of the \xa0Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is not backed by good evidence. Superdimensional alien languages. Gaining new perspective into\xa0the reality of the universe.

\n\n Preparation \n\n

Military secret-keeping. General Whitaker\u2019s Morpheus\xa0operandi: \u201cI\xa0cannot tell you what the matrix is.\xa0I have to show you.\u201d

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1. \n\t\t\t\tEverything by Ted Chiang: Amazon\n\t\t\t
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2. \n\t\t\t\tTed Chiang on Decipher SciFi: Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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3. \n\t\t\t\tDarmok: iTunesAmazon\n\t\t\t
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