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| Temporary | Sep 24 2009, 05:28 PM Post #16 |
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I've heard of both stories, never read 'em. As for the idea of giving something precedence over the laws of physics, well, maybe. If digital physics is right, admittedly in a very strict program way, then it could be possible. You just have to 'hack' the coding of the universe. In fact, I remembering hearing about a story where Andromeda disapeared and almost everything in it but the ships traveling at warpspeed because a few scientists hacked the source code. Of course, 'strict' digital physics has a few problems. The loose one is fine, it just states everything is anatological, which I guess could be true. But the strict one is that everything is digital, a computer simulation. A bit to matrixey for my blood. As for the modern methods of teleportation, don't hold your breath. I don't even think we'll teleport to get around cities (at least, not in the ways we've mentioned), they are all to dangerous or involve to much work. A new method, probably. On the other hand, I do think we'll teleport to travel long distances, like they did in Seven Days (it might have been fantasy, but the first season was inspired by some very realistic science). |
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| Kingpin | Nov 19 2009, 08:50 PM Post #17 |
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In my opinion, science and science-fiction are both on a collision course. We're on the verge of creating complete invisability. And that's just the tip of the iceburg. But anyway, I think that the ideal is not to strip the creativity away, but to cushion a concept with actual science. Like in the movie Jump. They didn't have an explination for teleportation, but they acknowledged the fact that when something disappears, it creates a vaccum. Every time he teleported in the movie, it created a sucking sound, which was the air rushing into the vaccum. |
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| Empyreon | Nov 19 2009, 10:57 PM Post #18 |
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Science fiction does (and should) have a 'get out of jail free card' for bending/breaking known laws here and there. Since it is a work of fiction, dramatic license takes precedent over scientific accuracy. Some people make the effort to adhere to physical laws while telling their story, but more often than not the story will have grains of inaccuracy. This can happen as a result of incomplete/inaccurate information at the time the work of fiction was produced, or it can be a simple decision on the author's part to go with something erroneous for the sake of their story (even in full understanding of the scientifically accepted facts). The problem arises primarily when readers expect the story to be "hard" sci-fi when the author is producing a work that is more on the fantastic end of the continuum. But how much of a problem is it really, because it inspires geeks everywhere to go into physics engineering to see if such fiction can somehow become fact. |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 19 2009, 11:06 PM Post #19 |
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I think fiction is one of the forces that push developement. Even physists make books about how the current theories they work on could create, stop or make an alternative to ideas in fiction which drives inventors to invest money in the technologies creation. |
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 01:50 PM Post #20 |
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We couldn't have developed our tech without imagination and randomness. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| ATEK Azul | Nov 20 2009, 02:49 PM Post #21 |
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So very true, also accidents also spawned alot of things. |
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 03:01 PM Post #22 |
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Like fire. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Iowanic | Nov 20 2009, 04:04 PM Post #23 |
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And mouth wash. |
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 04:07 PM Post #24 |
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Who invented mouth wash? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Iowanic | Nov 20 2009, 04:10 PM Post #25 |
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The wife of the man who invented saurkraut or kim chee. |
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| Holben | Nov 20 2009, 04:22 PM Post #26 |
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Not Kate Nash then. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Canis Lupis | Nov 23 2009, 04:16 PM Post #27 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Very interesting show coming up on the science channel. Starting on December 7 (I think that's the date), renowned physicist Michio Kakau will offer his own explanations of science fiction topics. Invisibility, time travel, even light sabers. All will be discussed and, using his own thought process, he will attempt to explain how these things could actually work. |
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| Holben | Nov 23 2009, 04:17 PM Post #28 |
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We're close to invisibility, time travel is possible if you convert a black hole to enrgy, but light sabres would carry on going forever and cut through the ship if they're made of energy. I'm guessing they're a beam of ions. |
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| Empyreon | Nov 23 2009, 04:29 PM Post #29 |
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As far as their "in-universe" explanation is concerned, lightsabers are columns of plasma contained within a semi-permeable magnetic cylinder. |
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| Holben | Nov 23 2009, 04:30 PM Post #30 |
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And where is this cylinder kept? |
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