Novel Excerpt

[stickmaker]

Excerpt from a hard SF novel in progress:

"All I've heard from you and the others about how this drive works are vague analogies," said Waide. "What's the math like?"

"Difficult," said Bailey, with a grimace. "To get a straight plot of a particular function, we had to use a base-e logarithmic scale on one leg and a base two-point-eight logarithmic scale on the other."

"That's... more than I want to take on," said Waide, looking stunned.

"It gets worse," said Bailey, with a slight tic in his left eye. "The field strength is measured in cubic Watts."

Comments

[kengr]

That's bizarre. And I can't see how "cubic Watts" makes any sense as a unit of field strength, the dimensions (units) don't match up.