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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Sometimes, credibility just comes down to how well you describe your handwavium to your audience... if they buy the explanation, your science is "credible" to them. I've given explanations of FTL in 2 books, and they might be credible to the audience who reads them... but they only need to be credible enough to allow the reader to accept it long enough to enjoy the story.
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Precisely. "Suspension of disbelief".
You might have a harder row to hoe if your thesis began with the idea that Ptolemy had it right, and the Earth was the center of the universe, but if you take what we know now and assume some developments down the road based on things we currently
don't know, you have a good shot.
You're helped by the fact that the audience reading your books probably
wants to suspend disbelief, so you don't have to jump through hoops to make that happen.
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Dennis