{"id":166,"date":"2005-10-17T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T17:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=166"},"modified":"2005-10-17T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T17:27:57","slug":"powers-of-ten-in-the-canyon-of-the-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/powers-of-ten-in-the-canyon-of-the-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Powers of Ten in the Canyon of the Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/poms.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve been preoccupied by this story with working title &#8220;Hormiga Canyon&#8221; that I&#039;m trying to start writing with Bruce Sterling.  We always have a lot of back and forth, trying to take control.  Like these two Pomeranians flowing back and forth as a living yin yang.  Click to see 1.5 Meg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/movies\/yinyangpoms.mpg\" target=\"_blank\"> movie of yinyang poms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/dip.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>By way of getting my hand into the dip first, today I worked up a couple of nice &#8220;powers of ten&#8221; tables about the spacetime scales that might be involved in our story. Speaking of bug stories, here&#039;s a Bruce&#039;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiction\/originals\/originals_archive\/sterling2\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Luciferase&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mathbaby.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Math runs in the family! Really I should be working on revising <i>Mathematicians in Love<\/i> and on my novelette &#8220;Postsingular.&#8221;  I&#039;m always most attracted to the project that feels most like I&#039;m totally wasting my time and just having fun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/oakset.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sighting sunset saucers in Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve been preoccupied by this story with working title &#8220;Hormiga Canyon&#8221; that I&#039;m trying to start writing with Bruce Sterling. We always have a lot of back and forth, trying to take control. Like these two Pomeranians flowing back and forth as a living yin yang. Click to see 1.5 Meg movie of yinyang poms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}