Dragon's Egg, a sci-fi novel about life that evolves on a neutron star. Because the extreme force of gravity causes all chemistry to be nuclear in nature rather than electromagnetic, everything happens extremely quickly due to nuclear reactions occurring on much smaller time scales than chemical reactions.
Lifeforms evolve from simple cellular life to intelligent sentient creatures in just a few thousand years, and individuals live and die in minutes.
The neutron star is on a trajectory that brings it through the outer solar system around the year 2020, so humans investigate it, and hijinks ensue as two species that live on extremely different time scales attempt to make contact and communicate.
The neutron star is on a trajectory that brings it through the outer solar system around the year 2020, so humans investigate it, and hijinks ensue as two species that live on extremely different time scales attempt to make contact and communicate.
So that one episode from Voyager, but probably a lot better.
Dragon's Egg, a sci-fi novel about life that evolves on a neutron star. Because the extreme force of gravity causes all chemistry to be nuclear in nature rather than electromagnetic, everything happens extremely quickly due to nuclear reactions occurring on much smaller time scales than chemical reactions.
Lifeforms evolve from simple cellular life to intelligent sentient creatures in just a few thousand years, and individuals live and die in minutes.
The neutron star is on a trajectory that brings it through the outer solar system around the year 2020, so humans investigate it, and hijinks ensue as two species that live on extremely different time scales attempt to make contact and communicate.
So that one episode from Voyager, but probably a lot better.