Tag: world building

Worldbuilding 3: Articles by Torn MacAlester

It’s All About Power
Part 3 of World Build­ing for Sci­ence fic­tion: This is the def­i­n­i­tion of the Kar­da­shev Scale.  Since it is a mea­sure of the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by a civ­i­liza­tion, it is titled: All about Pow­er. In case you’ve missed the pre­vi­ous posts in the thread, Part 1 begins here. The pre­vi­ous post in this thread, Part 2 is here.   Image by Pix­abay avail­able on Pex­els The Kar­da­shev Scale The Kar­da­shev scale mea­sures the tech­nol­o­gy of a civ­i­liza­tion.  It express­es the details in one para­me­ter: the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by the civ­i­liza­tion. The pow­er deliv­ered to the Earth from the Sun (approx­i­mate­ly […]

 

Math­e­mat­ics of the Kar­da­shev Scale
The Kar­da­shev scale is a mea­sure of the tech­no­log­i­cal achieve­ment of a civ­i­liza­tion.  Tra­di­tion­al­ly, there have been three lev­els on the Kar­da­shev scale: Type 1 – cor­re­spond­ing to a plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tion, Type 2 – cor­re­spond­ing to a stel­lar civ­i­liza­tion, and Type 3 – cor­re­spond­ing to a galac­tic civ­i­liza­tion. The types of civ­i­liza­tion cor­re­spond to the amount of pow­er the civ­i­liza­tion wields.  Here is the math­e­mat­ics of the Kar­da­shev scale. The Kar­da­shev scale is defined by the expres­sion: K℗=(log P – 6)/10 where P is the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by the civ­i­liza­tion expressed in Watts. For plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tions P=1016 W, K℗=1 (e.g. […]
Short science fiction by Torn MacAlester

Worldbuilding 1: Articles by Torn MacAlester

World Build­ing for Sci­ence Fiction
Image by Snap­wire on pex­els I want­ed to share some insight into the world build­ing process that I am using in my sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries. First off, most would call my sci­ence fic­tion as ‘Hard’ sci­ence fic­tion because of my use of sci­en­tif­ic rig­or when devel­op­ing my sto­ries. For myself, it’s part of the rea­son for sto­ry­telling. The sit­u­a­tions I like to con­sid­er an inter­est­ing sci­ence or engi­neer­ing prob­lem as part of my sto­ry. As part of that effort, I try to keep the sci­ence as cor­rect as pos­si­ble. The ques­tion that every sci­ence fic­tion author faces at some point […]
Short science fiction by Torn MacAlester

The Drake Equation: An Article by Torn MacAlester

The Drake Equation
Intro­duc­tion: Drake equa­tion devel­oped the equa­tion:   where is the rate of star for­ma­tion,  is the frac­tion of stars that have plan­ets, aver­age num­ber of plan­ets per star that could sup­port life,  is the frac­tion of plan­ets that have life, is the frac­tion hav­ing intel­li­gent life,  is the frac­tion that devel­ops suf­fi­cient tech­nol­o­gy, and is the […]

 

Civilization and Power

It’s All About Power
Part 3 of World Build­ing for Sci­ence fic­tion: This is the def­i­n­i­tion of the Kar­da­shev Scale.  Since it is a mea­sure of the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by a civ­i­liza­tion, it is titled: All about Pow­er. In case you’ve missed the pre­vi­ous posts in the thread, Part 1 begins here. The pre­vi­ous post in this thread, Part […]
Short science fiction by Torn MacAlester