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The canon of a work of fiction is "the body of works taking place in a particular fictional world that are widely considered to be official or authoritative; [especially] those created by the original author or developer of the world". [2] Canon is contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction and other derivative works. [3]
Life, whether fictional or real, is no longer a world that behaves as old Newtonian physics that perceives atoms as the smallest unit of being. Quantum theory is a radically new view of the universe as fluid and interconnected, influencing the fundamental technique, by which stories are told in a literary genre identified as quantum fiction.
Films about physics (4 C, 7 P) P. Fictional power sources (1 C, 7 P) T. Fiction about time (4 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Fiction about physics"
An early example of scientific teleportation (as opposed to magical or spiritual teleportation) is found in the 1897 novel To Venus in Five Seconds by Fred T. Jane. Jane's protagonist is transported from a strange-machinery-containing gazebo on Earth to planet Venus. A common fictional device for teleportation is a "wormhole".
physics A Single Man: Colin Firth: Professor George Falconer: English literature: Some Kind of Beautiful (2014) Pierce Brosnan: Dr. Richard Haig: English literature Spider-Man 2: Dylan Baker: Dr. Curtis Connors: physics Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Kathryn Hahn: Dr. Olivia Octavius: physics Still Alice (2014) Julianne Moore: Professor ...
Wormholes are the principal means of space travel in the Stargate movie and the spin-off television series, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, to the point where it was called the franchise that is "far and away most identified with wormholes". [8]
This list of existing technologies predicted in science fiction includes every medium, mainly literature and film.In 1964 Soviet engineer and writer Genrikh Altshuller made the first attempt to catalogue science fiction technologies of the time.
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]