That honestly sounds amazing.
In some continuities boom tubes are EXPLICITLY built for environmental adaptation, in that Apokolips and New Genesis are apparently ginormous and if you travel there without using a boom tube you'll be the size of an ant.
Okay, if that's the case a boom tube to the anti-verse still makes sense.
"Anti-gravity" would affect anti-particles the same way it would regular particles: repulsively.
That's...not a thing. It doesn't even make soft sci-fi sense unless you go so soft that it's magic-science. I could see it in a comic book, sure, but it is essentially no longer discussing anything meaningful to sci-fi and is pure fantasy.
Tyranny, not destruction.
On an antimatter planet, it would be a normal electromagnetic field, just of the opposite polarity. Your compass will point at the south pole instead of the north pole but will otherwise be completely fine. (Y'know, aside from the risk of your normal-matter compass getting annihilated on contact with the antimatter in the atmosphere...)
Irrelevant. In speech, the pause - even if not noticeable as a pause - will be marked by a shift in inflection or some other fashion, unless the character is speaking in a decidedly inhuman (or at least unintelligibly breathless) fashion. In text, the comma is important to clarity of reading.
Certainly helps with clarity, which should be the goal of any writing convention.
Dox is your classic totally socially alienated super-genius. He's great if you are looking for technology or strategy, but doesn't really get normal social interactions. At most he fakes it. Like the description of his quarters:
In a sense Dox is like OL; he'd consider dealing with Sinestro reasonable on purely utilitarian grounds. However, despite his orange-light-infused-utilitarianism OL does understand other people well enough to predict how badly the GLs would react. They won't like his new Weaponer recruit much either, but Weaponer Kalmin isn't a former GL nor does he wear a necklace of GL rings as a trophy; it's not as personal.
Ah. Now I understand.
The Oxford comma is only necessary where not using it leads to multiple valid but nonsensical interpretations of a sentence. It's fairly easy to restructure any sentence that would require one into one that doesn't. Zoat is under no grammatical obligation to use an Oxford comma so long as he doesn't introduce ambiguity, which as far as I have seen he never has.
That line wasn't about the antimatter universe, it was about the destructive properties of antimatter and qwa matter based weaponry.
Okay, the antimatter universe is functionally identical to the normal matter universe except some people are evil for some reason. So the forces they're affected by are identical.
Except in this particular case the comma would actually be wrong unless another comma was also inserted after "and". It's an appositive phrase, which either needs to be offset with commas on both sides or not at all.
Like some concepts of mirror matter, but more so. In theory you could have entire invisible stars, planets and galaxies out there that we can't see because they don't interact with our version of the electromagnetic forces.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the implications of having a identical counterpart to gravity would be, but considering gravity is really the distorted shape of space-time, I think having a separate gravitational force means you're essentially just in another universe/dimension anyway.
Given that the goal of this particular form of writing is to write as people speak, and few if any people execute real-time rewording of sentences to avoid the need for an Oxford Comma but instead tend to use vocal inflection to provide clarity, having Mr. Zoat rewrite his sentences to avoid the need is counterproductive.
Re-reading it, you're right. The comma needs to go both where indicated and after the "and." I don't think it's grammatically correct to leave both out any more than to leave one out.Except in this particular case the comma would actually be wrong unless another comma was also inserted after "and". It's an appositive phrase, which either needs to be offset with commas on both sides or not at all.
So in this case, Mr Zoat's opinionated writing style results in being more correct.
Actually, I was wrong. It's not an appositive phrase; it's a prepositional phrase. And prepositional phrases are comma-optional. There's technically a nitpicky difference between the grammatical meaning of a prepositional phrase with commas and one without (commas mean the phrase is "nonessential") but it's not grammatically incorrect to omit them.
The phrase is nonessential. "...and the X-gene is detectable by Ring sensors" is the phrase, sans interjecting preposition. It is complete without it, though the preposition adds meaning. The commas are technically necessary, because the phrase is "extra" and an interjection. It reads wrong without them.
"Bow to my will, or I'll step on your planet."
