[Story][Season 1] Here's Jack

[Ace Dreamer]

"non-atomic structure"?

Uhm....

If you take a close look at a number of waved materials you have two (three) choices:

1. there is residual handwavium there, doing things a material with an atomic structure, limited by the strength of electro-magnetic bonding, cannot do
   
2. there is no residual handwavium, and the previously atomic material has been changed by handwavium so that it has properties atomic materials cannot have (say, using nuclear bonding forces, not electronic)
   
3. something weird is going on [grin]
   

Reading the Fenspace stories, in some cases '1' seems to happening, in some cases '2' (or maybe the handwavium is hiding itself really well; if it's undetectable then it might as well be '2' ).
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind