How does telepathy work?
Dec. 10th, 2017 08:19 pmNow given that telepathy doesn't actually exist, it's a bit difficult to come up with good physics...
However, this is Stargate, and thus any reasonably convincing pseudoscience will do. :)
I have a character with a limited degree of telepathy/empathy. Usually comes across as being lucky at playing cards, guessing what people will do next, that kind of thing. Rarely extends to actual mind-reading (except when under the influence of things caused by aliens/alien technology/etc.).
It has no distance limitation (we're talking interstellar here), but definitely words best in physical proximity.
It also works best with people the telepath has an emotional connection with.
I have a couple of canonical alien devices that can heal/tweak human physiology. (Hey, this is Stargate SG-1, they have stacks of alien artefacts that have to be shipped to Area 51, so they can't be used to solve a problem in the next episode.... I'm shipping some of them out again <grin>)
What can I do in terms of pseudoscientific explanation (because I like my pseudoscience to be as close to real science as possible) to describe/manipulate this ability?
I'd love to come up with something that included electromagnetic radiation, but as far as I can see, the lack of a distance limitation means that speed of light screws up that theory.
Anyone care to suggest mechanisms by which telepathy might work?
Let your imagination run riot!