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Does Heinlein ever elaborate on the physics underlying Shipstones?
I can find only brief mentions in the two novels that followed Friday and Job, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls pub. 1985 and To Sail Beyond the Sunset pub 1987. (There is no mention of Shipstones in ...
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Does Heinlein ever elaborate on the physics underlying Shipstones?
A significant point in your question is the assertion that shipstones are “non-rechargeable” batteries. The statements about life-long tiny shipstone batteries mentioned in his stories is easily ...
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