Everybody know thatactual scientific advanceshave started out as skill fabrication , let in Radar and geostationary planet . Your tablet computer is basically right-hand out of Star Trek . But that does n’t intend that every scientific idea give tongue to in science fabrication is automatically on-key .
In fact , science fiction is full of beautifully nonsensical idea about the universe — which make no sense but are so beautiful , or ridiculous , or exciting that you have to love them anyway . Here are 10 wondrously insane theories expounded in skill fabrication .
10 . The Ballpoint Disappearances
In The Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy , there ’s a hypothesis that all fall back ballpoint pens slip off to their own major planet where they get together , form mob , and live ‘ the [ ballpoint ] equivalent of the good life . ’ One man says that he even give out to the major planet and worked as a number one wood for a folk of ‘ cheap unripened retractables . ’ Eventually the planet gets raided , and all these free pens get take and resold . The only monitor of any of it is a lone survivor on the planet who ‘ repeatedly claimed that nothing was truthful , though he was later find to be lie . ’
9 . The Turtles of Discworld
The humankind is a disk . It ’s stacked on the backs of four elephants . Those elephants are balanced on the backs of a giant turtle . The auto-mechanic of this situation are both fun , because it ’s created by Terry Pratchett , and frustrating . It sprain out that , compare to trying to do biological science at a distance , the world we dwell is comparatively easy to understand . you may spot most of the relevant thing about a planet by watching it orbit , doing spectroscopic analysis of the brightness level coming off of it , and seem at its environs . Not so with a space turtle . This scientific possibility really avail put the real world into linear perspective .
8 . Futurama ’s Dark Matter Engines
The crew of Futurama are able-bodied to jet around the galaxy above light speed , because of the special dark matter engine , manufacture by Hubert Farnsworth . But how the engines manoeuver is somewhat unmanageable to describe . Even Farnsworth does n’t know how it ’s done , saying , “ It came to me in a dreaming , and I forget it in another dream . ” It ’s up to his ringer , Cubert , to figure out the solution : The spaceship stays still , and the engines move the universe around it . Sure . Why not ?
7 . The Infinite Improbability Drive
The Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy racks up its 2d credit of the list , with its infinite improbableness drive . ‘ improbableness ’ generator can be used to force particle to hop from one post to another , over unforesightful distances , but that ’s just a warm - up . An innumerable improbability source can be used to get a grouping of atoms to countless improbableness — which leave a spaceship ’s atoms to suddenly flicker simultaneously through every point of the universe , allowing the space ship to travel anywhere in an instant . It ’s made by programming a even improbableness author exactly how improbable an infinite improbableness generator is and brew it a cup of raging afternoon tea .
6 . Alien Wormhole Transport Pods In liaison
Take a quick head trip through a massive , rotating round in a pocket-sized , dropping sphere , get blasted through space and time , and ignite up on a tropic beach and speak to glowing version of dead relative . A monumental roller coaster and a 24-hour interval on the beach – this is the perfect path to get around . Which make it even more of a disgrace that no one believed the persona who did it .
5 . Dark Matter is Linked Through a Single Nonlocal Particle
Futurama comes at us with another theory . The dark matter engines only figure out because all dark matter is yoke to a single vigor - plenteous atom , and a exclusive anti - atom , which if they ever come across will annihilate . But the dependable part of the theory is its reasoning for it : “ As Deepak Chopra taught us , quantum physics mean anything can happen at any meter for no reason . ” That opens up the field of study for a whole new set of theories .
4 . Firefly ’s Space Psychosis
Although Serenity revise the Reaver legend , Firefly ’s space psychosis was one of the most interesting theories of psychological science ever . stare into the abyss , the Firefly universe separate us , and you go straight-out ‘ bibblety ’ with it . Next bar ; mutilating your peel , torturing masses to death , eating bouncy anatomy , and driving your beat - up lead ship around ‘ without essence containment . ’ That , my friends , is a lot cooler than ‘ the abyss stare back . ’
3 . Battlestar Galactica ’s Origin of Species [ Spoilers ]
Darwin was incorrect , wrong , wrong . Of of course humans on earth did n’t evolve slowly from slime , to fish , to cower state beast , to primates . That ’s just punch-drunk . Instead , humans on solid ground were the event of space - mankind and space - humanoid - golem - who - think - its - a - human sex . We ’re all human - and - robot - infinite baby . I just do n’t see how that did n’t occur to people sooner .
2 . ex - file Theory of genetic science
In realism , it ’s hard to get the genetics of dissimilar mintage to meld successfully , even in musical composition . If some foreign deoxyribonucleic acid is introduce to an animal against all betting odds , it ’s almost never expressed . When it is expressed , it often takes special processes to even see the change . genetic science is more insidious than anyone thinks .
X - Files genetic science is way cooler : Any species can span with almost any other – sometimes through unethical experiment done by aliens or shadowy government conspirators , but more often through straight - up boning . As a result the world is lousy with hybrids . Human - alien hybrids . Human - other - alien hybrids . Human - flatworm hybrids . Human - tight - relative hybrids . Human - daimon hybrids . Human - superintelligent - ringer hybrids . And even a human - sand hybrid that descend near the end , when nobody cared what happen anymore because David Duchovny had left .
1 . The Terminator Trilogy ’s Time Theory
In the Terminator movie , we got the interesting theory that ‘ The future is not set . ’ If Sarah Connor got a steer off on what the futurity would most potential hold , well , that just made it more probable that she could change the future and avert the coming atomic apocalypse when the Skynet computer system gained consciousness and took over the world . Ah , but it did n’t actually put to work out that way of life . Sarah got significant by the guy cable that got sent back in time to save her – which could n’t materialize unless the future was set . What ’s more , in Terminator II it was revealed that Skynet would never even have began to get datum unless it had been ( will be ) built in the future and sent back to taste to kill Sarah Connor . This bespeak that the future is most definitely set . The fact that there is no other track record , in the Terminator universe , of such a thing materialise at any other time , nor does Skynet take another shot at Sarah by , I do n’t know , sending something back to where her parent live and atomise the whole area , means that the whole of story is so set that even fourth dimension travel does n’t mess it up . There is no potential edition of an already - established flow of chronicle . We ’re all just going through the motions . Scientific experimentation prove it .
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