Random entries excerpted from the Jacobs Lexicon for Science Friction Writers

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Algebra: a device designed to support alge

Astronomer: one who spends his/her time observing and cataloguing nocturnal emissions; see voyeur

Betelgeuse: the goo from squashed bugs

Electron: a slogan used during the Ronald Regan presidential campaigns

Einstein: a rock

Entanglement: a promise of marriage

Fibonacci: a style of pasta

Gluon: small stickers found on refrigerator doors, cabinets, lunch-boxes, etc.

Heisenberg: meaning is uncertain — it may or may not be a word

Hyperspace: a highly agitated place; a rock/rap club

Light speed: low dose amphetamine; diet drug

Logarithm: percussive sound used in Polynesian dance groups

Max Planck: the biggest board you can find

Meson: member of a secret fraternity

Moon: expose the posterior to public view

Mu meson: bovine member of the Meson fraternity

Orbit: notice of one’s death

Paradigm: twenty cents

Planck length: how long the board is

Planck’s constant: boards of uniform measurement

Planck’s number: lumber yard’s inventory

Quantum mechanics: people who fix very small things

Quark: sound made by a duck with a speech impediment

Serendipity: the art of finding things that were not being looked for

Space station: a place where lots of room is stored

Subatomic particle: a wee, tiny piece of stuff that works well underwater

Subspace: a place reserved for storing submarines

Supercollider: a runaway train on steroids

Tachyon: small stickers found on refrigerator doors, etc.; see gluon

Time: a spice

Time machine: a clock or a spice grinder

Time travel: going by bus

Triple-point: an ellipsis