Mika McKinnon is a physicist who also advised writers on Atlantis, SGU, and Discovery. Here is a half-hour interview on a popular science podcast.
She created the binary pulsar in Incursion, which produces a radiation beam that repeats every 46 minutes. At the time is was speculation, but 3 years after the show a binary pulsar (black hole + star) was actually discovered and a paper published!
She created the binary pulsar in Incursion, which produces a radiation beam that repeats every 46 minutes. At the time is was speculation, but 3 years after the show a binary pulsar (black hole + star) was actually discovered and a paper published!