What could a scientist in my Star Wars fan fic be working on?

Gravity lensing. Changing orbits or moving planets.
Gravitic communication is supposedly instantaneous at any distance through any medium.
Scientists continuously study ancient and alien tech.
Matter can be in more than one place at slightly different times, thus manipulate the 'information' of matter to create decoy planets, ships, whatever.
Nebulas or other cosmic entities that are sentient in and of themselves. How do we communicate with them? They have no need of us, and no fear of us.

 

What the three sea shells are for and how to use them
from Demolition Man.

(Currently nobody knows.)

 

I like your idea of changing orbits but I googled Gravity lensing and apparently it is a visual phenomenon. What would you call altering planet orbits?

 

Do you mean like moving the planet, or slowing/speeding it up?

IDK if there is a technical term for it.

 

Slowing or speeding it up.

 

Here are a couple links discussing this type of phenomena.

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/16842/how-can-i-slow-down-earths-rotation
https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/how-life-could-help-atmospheric-tides-slow-a-planets-rotation/

 

Thanks man.

 

Okay so my archeology idea didn’t work. My scientist is called upon by the New Republic to investigate why the supermassive black hole is more active than usual and sucking in things from a further range. I just need something for the scientist to be studying before he is called away. It has to sound fresh and cool.

 

How about the effects of hyper-gravity on Bose-Einstein condensates.

 

Magnitars?
They are some pretty complicated things they are.

 

Well I’d have to rename it since Einstein doesn’t exist in Star Wars and while it sounds cool, hypergravity really wouldn’t affect these supercooled temperatures

But it’s a good try! But try not. Do or do not

 

I would have hypothesized that super cooling a substance would have affected it's neutron degeneracy pressure.

 

Maybe. I need to do more research on that.

 

This time I found an idea. For real this time. Thanks for all your help!!!

 

They could be working on how to get water to that desert world with the 2/3 (IDK, I've not seen Star Wars) suns.


Or some kind of new force enhancing technology.

 

My idea was perfect. I got it from Mythic Scribes. Intermetallic energy alloy plating. Then I found something like that existed on Wookieepedia. I’m so pissed!!!! Why can’t I find an idea that works and hasn’t been done already?

 

How about working out how to prevent somebody hyperspace ramming entire fleets? That's become very important after The Last Jedi.

 

Okay someone on Reddit informed me that a supermassive black hole could never do what I want it to do. I’ve decided to scrap the whole story.

 

Star Wars isn't sci-fi, it's space opera. Black holes can do whatever you want them to and whatever you want your black hole to do is probably more believable than some of the things they've already done in the extended universe.

 

You’re absolutely right. I’ll give it some more thought.

 

I decided to go with a quark star. It’s better than a black hole because we don’t even know if they exist. Perfect for expansion However, I still need something for him to be working on before he deals with the quark star. I’m looking not for a gadget or piece of tech. I’ve decided everything technological that we can think of, can be done. Speeders with deflector shields? Sure. We haven’t seen them but they can easily be done. I’m looking for something that would still be an emerging field of science. Something a Type II/III civilization would do next. Any ideas?

 

I’m going about this all wrong when it comes to asking what idea I want. I’m looking for a science thing that my scientist could study. On Steven Jackson games forum, someone suggested the migration patterns of Purgills. It would have been perfect except for the fact that it might lead someone to Ezra and Thrawn. That story will be told in the future. I want something unique but also a science that my scientist can study as his main work. Not an invention.

 

That's one of the problems with working in a universe that's had working technological civilizations for tens of thousands of years. Most of the massive world shaping technologies have already been discovered and due to the limits of scarcity, physics, and the scientists themselves, most science being practiced is of the theoretical and observational kind and most technological advancement is based around making slightly more efficient or bigger.

 

You’re right! I finally get it. I’m going to take your words to heart and have him research asteroids.