DIRAC COMMUNICATOR

DIRAC COMMUNICATOR:    A device invented by James BLISH for the story "Beep" (1954; exp as The Quincunx of Time 1973), and used by him also in other stories. It is an instantaneous communicator, named after the great theoretical physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984). Others have since borrowed the device, but more recently Ursula K. LE GUIN's ANSIBLE has been the communicator of preference for sf writers.

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   See also: FASTER THAN LIGHT.

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