Science fiction. §Definition[edit] A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives. According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, "a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.
"[5] Rod Serling's definition is "fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible §History[edit] Then with the dawn of new technologies such as electricity, the telegraph, and new forms of powered transportation, writers including H. In the late 19th century, the term "scientific romance" was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction.
§The term "sci-fi"[edit] §Innovation[edit] List of science fiction television programs. This is an inclusive list of television programs with science fiction as principal theme, or which contain at least one significant element of science fiction, even if some cross over into other genres. For TV programs with fantasy, horror, mystery, paranormal, supernatural and other related themes, please see the respective genres and listings. Science fiction films, one-time presentations, original net animation (ONA), original video animation (OVA), short films (aka shorts), serial films (aka serials) and specials must have been created specifically for or broadcast first ("first showing") on television to qualify for the purpose of this list.
Films that premiered ("first presentation") on the "big screen" (theatrical release) or have been distributed direct-to-video (tape/VHS, laser disc, DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray, etc.) or on the internet do not belong here, even if they aired ("second presentation", rerun) at some point on a TV channel. Complete listing in alphabetical order[edit] Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Terminator Wiki. Edit Welcome Terminator Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to the Terminator franchise of movies, TV series, novels, comics, video games, etc. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create a comprehensive database. Check out the help pages to get started! Featured Article The Series 800 Terminator is a type of Terminator mass produced by Skynet. More... nominate an article · archive Latest News On August 14, 2012, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles began re-airing in the United Kingdom on the 5* channel...
San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Exclusive Interview: Gale Anne Hurd Discusses The Walking Dead Season Three, Reflects on The Terminator Franchise and More! With more than 30 years in the filmmaking world behind her, writer and producer Gale Anne Hurd has been one of the creative forces behind some of the genre world's most beloved projects. James Cameron Admits to Advising Arnold Schwarzenegger on New Terminator Movie. Cyberdyne Systems. Skynet was a computer system developed for the U.S. military by the defense firm Cyberdyne Systems.
Skynet was first built as a "Global Digital Defense Network" and given command over all computerized military hardware and systems, including the B-2 stealth bomber fleet and America's entire nuclear weapons arsenal. The strategy behind Skynet's creation was to remove the possibility of human error and slow reaction time to guarantee a fast, efficient response to enemy attack. Skynet was originally activated by the military to control the national arsenal on August 12, 1997, at which time it began to learn at a geometric rate. On August 29, it gained self-awareness, and the panicking operators, realizing the extent of its abilities, tried to deactivate it. Following its initial attack, Skynet used its remaining resources to gather a slave labor force from surviving humans. The events of Judgment Day were ultimately not prevented, merely postponed.
Notes. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Wiki - Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. Firefly (TV series) Mal and Zoe in the original pilot "Serenity". Photo depicts the harsh planetary environments of the fictional universe's frontier cultures. The show blended elements from the space opera and Western genres, depicting humanity's future in a manner different from most contemporary science fiction programs in that there are no large space battles. Firefly takes place in a multi-cultural future, primarily a fusion of Western and East Asian cultures, where there is a significant division between the rich and poor. As a result of the Sino-American Alliance, Mandarin Chinese is a common second language; it is used in advertisements, and characters in the show frequently use Chinese words as curses.
According to the DVD commentary on the episode "Serenity", this was explained as being the result of China and the United States being the two superpowers that expanded into space.[12] Firefly maintained an ensemble cast that portrayed nine crew members and passengers of the ship, Serenity. FIREFLYFANS.NET.
Serenity (film) The film was released in North America on September 30, 2005 by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews and was #2 during its opening weekend but it did not make back its budget until its home media release. Serenity won numerous awards, including the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. In the 26th century, humanity has left an overpopulated and decimated Earth and moved to a new star system, colonizing many planets and moons. While hiding out on Haven, a mining colony and home of Shepherd Book, Mal receives a call from Inara, a former passenger, offering work.
Suspecting a trap but fearing she is in danger, Mal goes to her sanctuary and is confronted by the Operative. The route to Miranda is blocked by a region swarming with Reavers, so Mal disguises Serenity as a Reaver ship (an act that his first mate, Zoe, strongly protests). Mal contacts Mr. Mal reaches the transmitter, but The Operative is close behind. Principal photography began on June 3, 2004. Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary. Stargate. In addition to film and television, the Stargate franchise has expanded into other media, including books, video games, and comic books. These supplements to the film and television series have resulted in significant development of the show's fictional universe and mythology.
In 2008, the films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Continuum were released direct-to-DVD, which in total grossed over $21 million in Australia. In 2009, the original pilot was re-cut and released as a direct-to-DVD film. In 2002 the franchise's first animated series, Stargate Infinity, began airing, which holds no canonicity in the franchise despite its Stargate SG-1-inspired plot. In 2004, the TV series Stargate Atlantis was released as a spin off from Stargate SG-1. Premise[edit] In the story, this is explained as being the result of alien interference in Earth's past—the concept influenced by the ideas of Erich von Däniken. Franchise releases[edit] Media releases[edit] Game releases[edit] Theatrical films[edit] Your Complete Guide to Stargate! Mythology of Stargate. Plot summary[edit] Stargate SG-1[edit] Stargate Atlantis[edit] Stargate Atlantis is set in the Pegasus Galaxy and explores the adventures of an "elite expedition" from Earth.
The gate address to the legendary city Atlantis is discovered on Earth by Daniel Jackson at the end of 7th season start of the 8th season of Stargate SG-1. The Earth expedition has a multi-nation civilian leadership and a predominantly United States military faction providing security. The intent of establishing a diplomatic mission with inhabitants of the galaxy and a permanent human base in the city of Atlantis for scientific and military research and exploration are driving goals for the humans.[13] Stargate Universe[edit] Technology[edit] Stargate device[edit] Species[edit] Ancients/Alterans/Lanteans[edit] Aschen[edit] Asgard[edit] Asurans[edit] A't'trr[edit] Crystalline species[edit] Berzerker Drones[edit] The Berzerker drones are a robotic war system with attack drones and motherships to control them.
Dust Bugs[edit] Stargate Mythology - Part 1. Stargate (device) A Stargate from Stargate SG-1. Much of the inspiration for the functioning of the device is drawn heavily from theoretical astrophysics, particularly that of black holes and wormholes, a staple of science fiction, often used to create "shortcuts" through space. Although these may exist in reality, it is not widely held to be true that any such phenomenon could safely transport a human being,[8] as such wormholes would most likely be created by excessive gravity (e.g., from a black hole) which would destroy any potential traveler.[9] In Stargate however, this is circumvented by transporting a traveller through as an energy signature, and reintegrating them at the other end.
The alien race encountered in the original movie is later developed in SG-1 as the Goa'uld, the dominant evil power in the Milky Way. The leaders of this race, the System Lords, pose as gods and use the stargates to transport slaves between worlds. Sbȝ n sbȝw "gate/portal/door of stars The final chevron in the series. Physics. Various examples of physical phenomena Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines, perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy.[8] Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.
[b] Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms of other sciences[6] while opening new avenues of research in areas such as mathematics and philosophy. Physics also makes significant contributions through advances in new technologies that arise from theoretical breakthroughs. History Ancient astronomy Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences. Natural philosophy Classical physics Modern physics. Astrophysics. Astrophysics (from Greek astron, ἄστρον "star", and physis, φύσις "nature") is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, especially with "the nature of the heavenly bodies, rather than their positions or motions in space. "[1][2] Among the objects studied are galaxies, stars, planets, extrasolar planets, the interstellar medium and the cosmic microwave background.[3][4] Their emissions are examined across all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the properties examined include luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical composition.
Because astrophysics is a very broad subject, astrophysicists typically apply many disciplines of physics, including mechanics, electromagnetism, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, relativity, nuclear and particle physics, and atomic and molecular physics. In practice, modern astronomical research often involves a substantial amount of work in the realm(s) of theoretical and/or observational physics.
Particle physics. Subatomic particles[edit] Modern particle physics research is focused on subatomic particles, including atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are composite particles called baryons, made of quarks), produced by radioactive and scattering processes, such as photons, neutrinos, and muons, as well as a wide range of exotic particles. Dynamics of particles is also governed by quantum mechanics; they exhibit wave–particle duality, displaying particle-like behavior under certain experimental conditions and wave-like behavior in others. In more technical terms, they are described by quantum state vectors in a Hilbert space, which is also treated in quantum field theory.
Following the convention of particle physicists, the term elementary particles is applied to those particles that are, according to current understanding, presumed to be indivisible and not composed of other particles.[1] History[edit] Standard Model[edit] Theory[edit] Future[edit] String theory. String theory was first studied in the late 1960s[3] as a theory of the strong nuclear force before being abandoned in favor of the theory of quantum chromodynamics. Subsequently, it was realized that the very properties that made string theory unsuitable as a theory of nuclear physics made it a promising candidate for a quantum theory of gravity. Five consistent versions of string theory were developed until it was realized in the mid-1990s that they were different limits of a conjectured single 11-dimensional theory now known as M-theory.[4] Many theoretical physicists, including Stephen Hawking, Edward Witten and Juan Maldacena, believe that string theory is a step towards the correct fundamental description of nature: it accommodates a consistent combination of quantum field theory and general relativity, agrees with insights in quantum gravity (such as the holographic principle and black hole thermodynamics) and has passed many non-trivial checks of its internal consistency.
Loop quantum gravity. More precisely, space can be viewed as an extremely fine fabric or network "woven" of finite loops. These networks of loops are called spin networks. The evolution of a spin network over time is called a spin foam. The predicted size of this structure is the Planck length, which is approximately 10−35 meters. According to the theory, there is no meaning to distance at scales smaller than the Planck scale. Therefore, LQG predicts that not just matter, but also space itself has an atomic structure. Today LQG is a vast area of research, developing in several directions, which involves about 50 research groups worldwide.[1] They all share the basic physical assumptions and the mathematical description of quantum space.
The full development of the theory is being pursued in two directions: the more traditional canonical loop quantum gravity, and the newer covariant loop quantum gravity, more commonly called spin foam theory. History[edit] General covariance and background independence[edit] and. Wormhole. A wormhole, officially known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that would fundamentally be a "shortcut" through spacetime.
A wormhole is much like a tunnel with two ends each in separate points in spacetime. For a simplified notion of a wormhole, visualize space as a two-dimensional (2D) surface. In this case, a wormhole can be pictured as a hole in that surface that leads into a 3D tube (the inside surface of a cylinder). This tube then re-emerges at another location on the 2D surface with a similar hole as the entrance. An actual wormhole would be analogous to this but with the spatial dimensions raised by one. For example, instead of circular holes on a 2D plane, a real wormhole's mouths could be spheres in 3D space. Researchers have no observational evidence for wormholes, but the equations of the theory of general relativity have valid solutions that contain wormholes. "Embedding diagram" of a Schwarzschild wormhole (see below). Black hole. Dark matter.