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George R.R. Martin has co-authored a physics paper
“I couldn’t help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon.”…
There has been considerable speculation on the Wild Cards website discussing the science behind that virus, and it caught the attention of Ian Tregillis, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who thought it might make a useful pedagogical exercise. The ultimate goal was to "demonstrate the wide-ranging flexibility and utility of physics concepts by converting this vague and seemingly unapproachable problem to a straightforward dynamic system, thereby putting a wealth of conceptual and mathematical tools at students' disposal," Tregillis and Martin wrote in their paper. They also suggest the existence of "cryptos": Jokers and Aces with mutations that are largely unobservable, such as producing ultraviolet racing stripes on someone's heart or imbuing "a resident of Iowa with the power of line-of-sight telepathic communication with narwhals.
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