Eliezer isn’t bothering to consider publication dates, and has ignored them in the past- eg Barbour’s The End of Time wasn’t published until 1999, yet Harry still knows timeless physics.
Eliezer has said that he’s giving a pass to any science in the story, but I don’t think he’s applied that policy to all fiction Harry has consumed. In the Azkaban break, Eliezer noted that Harry was quoting from the trailer of a movie (Army of Darkness,) which hadn’t been released yet, and in the tvtropes discussion thread, he attested that he had checked the chronology of the trailer.
I don’t think so- the passage implied that other muggleborns might know it as well:
Even if some Muggleborn knew about timeless formulations of quantum mechanics
Plus I get the feeling that it’s beyond Harry’s own capabilities, since his original thoughts/ideas are also (generally) Eliezer’s original thoughts/ideas
Eliezer isn’t bothering to consider publication dates, and has ignored them in the past- eg Barbour’s The End of Time wasn’t published until 1999, yet Harry still knows timeless physics.
Eliezer has said that he’s giving a pass to any science in the story, but I don’t think he’s applied that policy to all fiction Harry has consumed. In the Azkaban break, Eliezer noted that Harry was quoting from the trailer of a movie (Army of Darkness,) which hadn’t been released yet, and in the tvtropes discussion thread, he attested that he had checked the chronology of the trailer.
I was under the impression Harry didn’t learn that from Barbour—he derived it himself.
I don’t think so- the passage implied that other muggleborns might know it as well:
Plus I get the feeling that it’s beyond Harry’s own capabilities, since his original thoughts/ideas are also (generally) Eliezer’s original thoughts/ideas
Yeah, no. Harry’s smart, but he’s not that smart.