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This essay draws on research in transmedial narratology to propose a model of theme park storytelling, thus addressing a curious gap in the scholarship. For, while theme park scholars have recently become interested in the narrativity of theme parks but have largely failed to engage with the theories…

This article argues that narrative competence and cultural competence are independent variables in AI-generated fiction: a text can be mimetically vivid, synthetically controlled, and thematically coherent while getting its cultural and historical substance precisely wrong. To demonstrate this, it compares…

The article introduces the concept of storyworld affordances into narratological research and operationalises it in the context of narrative gaps. Its central proposal is the notion of relational gaps, grounded in the relational structure of withdrawn affordances. It also explores what follows from the…

The article discusses Meir Sternberg’s theory of gaps, in particular regarding the fundamental linkage it establishes between gaps and narrativity. The focus is on three distinctive characteristics of Sternberg’s approach. First, he conceives of gaps as referential (i.e., relating to the storyworld)…

Reckoning books are an important but mostly overlooked source for the narration of knowledge. They grow especially important on the verge of the early modern period, where emerging European long-distance trade connections and the rise of the merchant class result in an unprecedented thirst for mathematical…

Relativity theory as Einstein devised it is easily shown to be fundamentally flawed. Examples are represented to prove this beyond a shadow of doubt. The revised version of relativity removes all these problems by introducing the Uniform Scaling Principle and the Newton-Voigt space-time Transformation…

The consequences of Bose’s statistical theory with regard to the possible existence of zero-energy photons are discussed. It is pointed out that Einstein’s mass dilation formula leaves open the distinct possibility that photons with zero energy can move with speed v

There are two frequently used systems of units for physical properties. The mks System employs the meter (m) and kilogram (kg) as the units of distance and inertial mass, whereas the British System employs foot (ft) and pound (lb) in their place. In many cases, a conversion between the numerical values…

A system of units is described which replaces all the SI units for electromagnetic quantities with combinations of the meter, kilogram and second (mks units). There is a degree of freedom in the definition of the SI units which is illustrated by Coulomb’s Law. All that is required is that the ratio of…