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  2. Suspended animation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    This process is commonly employed as a plot device in science fiction narratives. It is frequently utilized to transport a character from the past to the future (a form of forward-only time travel) or to facilitate interstellar space travel, which necessitates an extended journey for months or years (referring to space travel in fiction). In ...

  3. Biology in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...

  4. Suspended animation - Wikipedia

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    Like CPR, suspended animation could delay the onset of cell death (necrosis) in seriously injured or ill patients, providing them with more time to receive definitive medical treatment. Suspended animation is the temporary (short- or long-term) slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved. States ...

  5. Time perception - Wikipedia

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    Research has suggested the feeling of awe has the ability to expand one's perceptions of time availability. Awe can be characterized as an experience of immense perceptual vastness that coincides with an increase in focus. Consequently, it is conceivable that one's temporal perception would slow down when experiencing awe. [86]

  6. Stasis (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    Stasis can also be used offensively to slow down enemies. In the first episode of Red Dwarf, "The End", Dave Lister, third-class technician of the mining ship "Red Dwarf", is put into a stasis booth as punishment for breaking rules on the ship. However, during his time in stasis, lethal radiation leaks into the ship as a result of a malfunction ...

  7. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    There is no cure for the flare, but many wealthy people slow down the onslaught of the symptoms with an illegal drug called the bliss, which slows down their brain activity. It was released by the governments of the world to help control overpopulation after the sun flares, but it eventually killed most of the people in the world.

  8. How scientists can slow down time - AOL

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    Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity states that the faster something travels, the slower time appears to move relative to a stationary observer. To test the time dilation part of the TSR ...

  9. Science in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films. It covers a large range of topics. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry).