Can't say I've heard of anything like this _explicitly_, but Star Trek _kinda_ skates around the edges of that with the whole "warp drive" thing to some degree. Not an expert in ST lore by any means, but that whole franchise's physics world would have to be different than ours for the idea of a "warp field" to exist.
Greg Egan is great. Strongly recommend Permutation City. Predating The Matrix, they build simulated worlds which then bootstrap themselves into alternate realities. The physics are not the same as our physics but similar.
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov explores this very idea of what would happen if two parallel universes were to interact but had different laws of physics.
Flatland is amazing! Without giving anything up, its a short-story that takes place in two dimensions, where men are polygons and women are lines. It's a brilliantly written satire of Victorian culture and an interesting thought experiment.
Check out The Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee. The first instalment (Ninefox Gambit) is one of my favorite books. The physics of the world is based on an interesting "calendrical" system which relies on the population's faith in the calendar to persist.
The Emberverse series by SM Sterling. The laws of physics change such that technology no longer works and is no longer capable of working. Ex: water couldn't boil enough to power a steam engine.
The first book is the best - subsequent books are almost pure fantasy.
Redshift Rendezvous (I forget who wrote it) has alternate physics you can step into where the speed of light is 30 m/s. You can get relativistic effects while jogging. (I mean, I guess that's just the same physics with one of the parameters changed, but it changes quite a bit...)
Bob Shaw wrote a duology "The Ragged Astronauts" & "The Wooden Spaceships" in which the ratio of a circles circumference to it's diameter is 3. As far as I can tell, the only reason this factoid is included is to defuse any arguments about the plausibility of other elements of the setting (a binary planet with a shared atmosphere such that it is possible for a feudal society to stage an invasion from one to the other using balloons).
Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle has Ptolemaic cosmology and Aristotelian physics.
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
by A.K. Dewdney is sort of a modern take on the classic Flatland by Edwin Abbot, and manages to improve upon it considerably.
The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter posits an infinite set of parallel Earths that can be reached with a trivial but unorthodox electronic device. You have to travel to them incrementally, one sideways step
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 76.3 ms ] threadBut yeah for the other Trek technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_(series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
Diaspora starts in this universe but ends up somewhere else.
Some of his other books the physics are the same as ours but the locations are so exotic that they might as well qualify.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Is this a serious question? Almost all of them.
(Faster than light travel also means time travel is possible, but most SciFi doesn't link the two coherently)
Many mess with gravity as well.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21844/i-am-going-to-die-in...
There are no advanced concepts or deep hard scifi explorations, but the various worlds each have unique physics systems that are macro-consistent.
The first book is the best - subsequent books are almost pure fantasy.
and you have to aim a flashlight like a water hose. +1 for the appendix at the end that explains the conceit and lays out the equations used!
One of my favorites, written by John E. Stith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series
Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle has Ptolemaic cosmology and Aristotelian physics.
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World by A.K. Dewdney is sort of a modern take on the classic Flatland by Edwin Abbot, and manages to improve upon it considerably.
The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter posits an infinite set of parallel Earths that can be reached with a trivial but unorthodox electronic device. You have to travel to them incrementally, one sideways step