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* [[Secret Police]] - Security officer Reymont has his known deputies, and a number of deputies that no one knows about (including other members of his covert security force). A mild case since there is no real crime aboard the ship, and the security force is just there to keep the peace when tensions get too high.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] - Reymont explains how everyone views their immediate superior as an unreasonable authority figure, but their superior's superior as a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].
* [[Shown Their Work]] - See the [[Info Dump]] entry. Anderson even takes the reader through the mathematical formula for "tau". Unfortunately Anderson is also the only person on Earth who calls it tau - most others use the letter tau for [
* [[Take a Third Option]] - Right before breaking the news to the crew that they have no hope, someone comes up with a possible way of stopping the ship.
* [[Time Dilation]] - It keeps increasing, to the point where years are going by for every second the ship experiences. Unfortunately, [[Did Not Do the Research|he does it wrong]]. Time dilation is a distinctly tricky phenomenon to understand without digging deep in special relativity -- to a spaceship traveling close to the speed of light, the rest of the universe appears to be travelling past while the spaceship is stationary, therefore the spaceship would see time pass normally for itself and time pass more slowly for ''the rest of the universe''. Things would only change (and the effect become prominent) upon deceleration.
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