Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" 179
An anonymous reader writes "Mathematician Benjamin K. Tippett has written a fascinating and deadpan paper (Pdf) giving insights into Cthulhu. A 'Bubble' of warped Space-Time makes alarmingly consistent sense of the dead God's cyclopean city under the sea. From the paper: 'We calculate the type of matter which would be required to generate such exotic spacetime curvature. Unfortunately, we determine that the required matter is quite unphysical, and possess a nature which is entirely alien to all of the experiences of human science. Indeed, any civilization with mastery over such matter would be able to construct warp drives, cloaking devices, and other exotic geometries required to conveniently travel through the cosmos.'"
Re:A still mainly unexplored genre (Score:4, Informative)
Along the lines of this classic by Larry Niven... http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html [rawbw.com]
Re:Gods with pitchforks. (Score:4, Informative)
Lovecraft's various creatures, including Cthulhu and others variously described as "gods", had extraterrestrial origins (eg. "from outer spheres"). Basically the idea was that they were ancient and vastly powerful extra-dimensional beings, not gods in the sense that you're thinking.
Re:So it's a Sci-Fi? (Score:5, Informative)