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Potential Energy Believing in Sci-Fi Science - ScienceDirect.com

After completing her master's thesis at the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Chemistry, Sara Szymkuć joined Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski's ...

How science fiction brings people closer to science - Club SciWri

As a sci-fi author and a science enthusiast, I firmly believe in the transformative power of the genre to bring people closer to science.

How does Religion tie into your science fiction world? : r/worldbuilding

How does the vast expanse of the universe affect old religions, or inspire new ones? How does a more thorough view of the universe affect faith?

Science Fiction and Philosophy: An Encounter in the Future

Around the turn of the 21st century, Tian Song said that sci-fi was a type of thought experiment. He nominates three criteria to evaluate a sci-fi work: ...

Do scientists ever use science fiction as a source of inspiration or ...

... sci-fi giving inspiration to tomorrow's IRL science? I have answered ... I believe people become scientists because of a love for science fiction.

Knowledge about science really necessary for Sci-fi? [closed]

You don't really need much (if any) science knowledge to write soft sci-fi. Really hard sci-fi on the other hand (say number 6 on the scale) is very much based ...

Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy - Dan Koboldt

Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy is a blog series for authors and fans of speculative fiction. Just as science fiction often has roots in hard sciences ...

If Science Fiction Was A Religion What Would Be Its Creed?

Belief in God, gods, angels, and heaven are generally considered to be religious beliefs, while the things that science fiction fans believe in ...

Science Fiction Thinking: Technology, Magic And Perception

Combining Strategic Foresight and Sci Fi Thinking enables the designer to generate exponentially iterative design processes to imagine and ...

Fan of sci-fi? Psychologists have you in their sights - The Conversation

Psychology has often supported this dismissal of the genre. The most recent psychological accusation against science fiction is the “great ...

Should we distinguish between "science fiction" and "sci-fi"?

Sci-fi is simply a normal, main-stream story that has been transposed into the tropes and memes that have become a standard part of science fiction.

How sci-fi books can help kids better understand science - UND Today

Scientists and engineers have reported that their childhood encounters with science fiction framed their thinking about the sciences. Thinking ...

Envisioning the future through a sci-fi lens | Stanford Report

As students learned, science fiction is a thought-provoking genre for thinking about what could happen in years to come. Current trends and ...

12 Of The Coolest Theoretical Ideas From Science Fiction

Nevertheless, not every futuristic gadget or concept dreamt up by sci-fi writers is destined to be actualized. In fact, some of their notions are deliberately ...

Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy | The Great Courses Plus

Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy · David Kyle Johnson, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma · Course Overview · What's Included? · Reviews · Reviews · Questions & ...

Is Science Fiction Dead?

I believe science fiction's core belief is space is the final ... The Martian was hard sci fi that focused on the same thing that all ...

Faith in the Future, or, Does Religion Have a Place in Science Fiction?

... faith in science than in any revelatory belief system. ... If you like our work, please help us pay our authors and keep philosophical sci-fi free ...

Tales Of Technology And Faith - Noema Magazine

Sci-fi enables us to think about science and religion as mutually supportive elements of what it means to be human.

The Challenges of Believability in Writing Science Fiction - C. S. Lakin

If a work of science fiction is to be believable and engrossing, the science in it must be plausible—and the science must be understandable to ...

Why I Don't Believe in Science Fiction | Mars Will Send No More

... it because it doesn't really exist. Maybe that sounds odd coming from a guy who's been devouring sci-fi books, comics, and films for…