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Some versions of brane cosmology, based on the large extra dimension idea, can explain the weakness of gravity relative to the other fundamental forces of nature, thus solving the hierarchy problem. In the brane picture, the electromagnetic , weak and strong nuclear force are localized on the brane, but gravity has no such constraint and ...
The Cosmere is the fictional universe in which the various worlds in most of Sanderson's adult fantasy works are set. The Culture: Consider Phlebas: 1987 Iain M. Banks: Interstellar anarchist, socialist, and utopian society created for a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction collectively called the Culture series. Dark ...
The Traveller universe, by Game Designers' Workshop; The Uplift Universe by David Brin; The X-COM universe by Mythos Games and MicroProse; The X-Files universe by Chris Carter; The Xeelee universe by Stephen Baxter; The Zones of Thought universe by Vernor Vinge; Some universes also include elements from other genres of speculative fiction such ...
A point particle is a 0-brane, of dimension zero; a string, named after vibrating musical strings, is a 1-brane; a membrane, named after vibrating membranes such as drumheads, is a 2-brane. [2] The corresponding object of arbitrary dimension p is called a p-brane, a term coined by M. J. Duff et al. in 1988. [3]
Golden Age of Science Fiction — a period of the 1940s during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published. New Wave science fiction — characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content.
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
Science fiction by genre (22 C, 3 P) Soft science fiction (4 C, 9 P) Solarpunk (2 C, 10 P) Space opera (17 C, 36 P) Speculative crime and thriller fiction (294 P)
While science fiction is a unique genre of fiction unto itself, it is also sometimes used as an umbrella term for a variety of distinct non-realistic or speculative fiction genres, most particularly fantasy. Conversely, speculative fiction is sometimes used as the umbrella term for SF, fantasy, Magic realism, horror, etc.