Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 23, 2016

How do people who know even a little physics stand watching the simple-minded technology as portrayed in early Star Trek episodes or Star Wars movies? I preferred stories, for instance, by Larry Niven, Robert L. Forward or Stephen Baxter that exercised my mind with fantastic yet plausible concepts. Some of the newer movies are getting there, but to some extent they still dumb things down.

“Captain, we’re under attack! The enemy is a bunch of first-year physics majors who think they’re already at post-grad levels.”Captain: “Issue the crew with air tanks, then open all the airlocks.”

@emptc12 Because it was about the story, not the math or the physics.

You all probably have come across the following book:.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physics_of_Star_Trek.And of course several books by Mischio Kaku contain serious discussions of scientific concepts that appear in science fiction work..I’m willing to suspend belief for stories with “heart.” I’m especially a sucker for time travel stories, the first one I read having been DANGER: DINOSAURS. I just looked it up on-line, and there it is! Quite an accomplished author wrote it.

It’s just science we haven’t really figured out yet. A lot of today’s science would have seemed like poor physics 50 years ago.