A hard scifi about ghosts/poltegeists. The idea is based on a few premises:
1) An invisible person has to be blind
2) Every single human cell has DNA that contain endogenous retroviruses
3) Viruses can crystalize - an ability that even ancient viruses have. And when viruses crystalize, some will form massive band gaps, making those crystals transparent.
4) Every human has it in them to become transparent (mutation of some sorts).
5)Because of the change in cell structure, the invisible man's brain is changed too. His intelligence is reduced. And because light can pass through him, his biology doesn't require food for energy. Light suffices.
6) Because they're blind, invisible people bump into things and moan a lot due to lowered intelligence. Tadah, ghosts.
I've been jumping around some ideas: either extend HG Well's the Invisible Man universe (that a number of experiments in the late 1800s created these "ghosts"), or a Fringe-like thing, where some scientist (Walt Priest) was experimenting in the late 1980s, and the story takes place in the future, where an investigative journalist (Olive Dunham) discovers his secret. There is also another version in my mind where it's written as a horror story, but I can't write horror to save my life
I think I have given up writing it, focusing more on my other book - on virtual machines instead. Feel free to steal it
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A hard scifi about ghosts/poltegeists. The idea is based on a few premises:
1) An invisible person has to be blind
2) Every single human cell has DNA that contain endogenous retroviruses
3) Viruses can crystalize - an ability that even ancient viruses have. And when viruses crystalize, some will form massive band gaps, making those crystals transparent.
4) Every human has it in them to become transparent (mutation of some sorts).
5)Because of the change in cell structure, the invisible man's brain is changed too. His intelligence is reduced. And because light can pass through him, his biology doesn't require food for energy. Light suffices.
6) Because they're blind, invisible people bump into things and moan a lot due to lowered intelligence. Tadah, ghosts.
I've been jumping around some ideas: either extend HG Well's the Invisible Man universe (that a number of experiments in the late 1800s created these "ghosts"), or a Fringe-like thing, where some scientist (Walt Priest) was experimenting in the late 1980s, and the story takes place in the future, where an investigative journalist (Olive Dunham) discovers his secret. There is also another version in my mind where it's written as a horror story, but I can't write horror to save my life
I think I have given up writing it, focusing more on my other book - on virtual machines instead. Feel free to steal it