Milton A. Rothman

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8 Quotations from Milton A. Rothman

antigravity n. 1947 M. A. Rothman Interplanetary Travel (Means of Propulsion) in Variant Sept. 36 I think that Cambell [sic] was the first to point out in a story that to render a body completely weightless by an antigravity machine would require the consumption of the amount of energy necessary to lift a weightless body to any height with the application of very little power, remove the antigravity, and let the body fall under its weight, thus generating energy out of nothing, which is not allowed.
boat n. 1940 ‘L. Gregor’ Flight to Galileo in Astonishing Stories Oct. 106/1 A comet zoomed from the other side of the asteroid. Reeves, in his little boat, groaned against his chair straps. He'd been far away; it took time to get where he wanted at a speed low enough to be of any use.
Clarke’s Law n. 1980 M. A. Rothman On Designing an Interstellar Spaceship in Asimov’s Science Fiction Sept. 119 I also know that when I say: ‘It is impossible for an interstellar space drive to operate without using a reaction principle,’ somebody is going to throw Clarke’s Law up in my face.
faster than light adv. 1980 M. A. Rothman On Faster-Than-Light Paradoxes in Asimov’s Science Fiction May 91 Some of these authors assume there is some way of transmitting a signal faster than light—even instantaneously—over interstellar distances.
planetquake n. 1941 M. A. Rothman Convention of 1960 in Milty’s Mag June 5 The hyperspatial transition—and what it means! This planetquake between two planets that exist simultaneously across hyperspace—portions of each planet changing position!
reaction drive n. 1980 M. A. Rothman On Designing an Interstellar Spaceship in Asimov’s Science Fiction Sept. 118 If conservation of momentum is a valid law, then every interstellar space drive must be a reaction drive.
tight-beam n. 1940 ‘L. Gregor’ Flight to Galileo in Astonishing Stories Oct. 92/2 This came on our own private, tight[-]beam, scrambled phone hook-up, just before the interference broke it up.
tin can n. 1940 ‘L. Gregor’ Flight to Galileo in Astonishing Stories Oct. 101/2 You would make a fine picture going out there in your little tincan, waiting until the attackers came. They would float in with lights and most power out, everything shielded so that we couldn’t detect them.