2008年8月10日 星期日

Poetic License. Create. Water.

Talking about energy, we can’t do much without it. And if we have endless supply and huge volume of energy, then we can make significant discoveries. If everyone gets enough energy at the same time, we achieve greatness. We would be on the next wave of revolutions, a new historic Renaissance again.

As a writer, suddenly I am aware of my responsibility to discover something great about cheap and abundant supply of powerful energy. I don’t do experiments in the lab. I do it in my mind.

We don’t need much uranium to release atomic explosion that blows up the Earth. Luckily there isn’t too much uranium around. But we have a lot of water.

Water.

Everything on this planet goes back to water. Break its molecular bond, let hydrogen be free, and we have cheap and abundant supply of energy. No, mere abundance is not enough. We need endless supply.

Water bubbles. Foams. Didn’t scientists say in the quantum level energy is endlessly immense? Its surface is uneven, just like foam. Then foam is a good metaphor to describe energy field, ultra-strong energy.

That’s why I had the idea of foam-like power. Foam-powered. But that’s only the facial description. In the core the cheap energy needs technological specifications and a protocol name.

I was thinking how to name this protocol when I realized that, the world is a naming game. We make nomenclature and assign meanings. According to Nash, there are two things left in this world for people to study, one is semiotics, the signification of meanings.

I am giving the future of energy a name to be signified in this protocol.

You may ask: What am I to have this privilege? Well, I’m not a scientist, but in the old past science is narrated by Plato or Aristotle with words, not math.

I have the Poetic License. to Create.

(Yes, just a few hundred years ago, key English terms are in capital letter, not necessarily in the beginning of sentence or proper names)