Fantasy Science
Electromagnetism. Force. EMF. Have you heard terms like these flying around in sci-fi? Have you wondered how accurately films & TV portray real science?
So, NASA wants to take us to Mars soon, but what are we going to eat? We can now grow food in space, and engineers were inspired by Star Trek’s aeroponics!
Hyperspace. Quantum physics. Faster than light. Have you heard terms like these flying around the…
Will humans ever be able to travel at speeds faster than light? Will we ever go into hyperspace, subspace, or jump between stars? Let’s dive into the science.
Some (dystopian) science fiction stories have infertility at their basis. What are some of the best in how they treat the phenomenon? And is the threat real?
Don’t blink. Seeing Doctor Who’s Weeping Angels petrifies them into statue form in a process referred to as quantum locking. How believable is this?
In this part of the Fantasy Science column, we’re diving into the scientific underpinnings of Ant-Man’s power: resizing and going “subatomic”.
In this new Fantasy Science, we are revisiting the Fermi Paradox: if there are so many galaxies and planets out there, why haven’t we found evidence of alien life?
In this 7th part of the Fantasy Science series, we are going to chat about naturally occurring biological immortality, with the help of movies.
Film Inquiry’s resident physicist takes a look at teleportation in film and TV, explains how teleportation would work, theoretically, and whether one day we might be teleporting from A to B.
Why haven’t we found any signs of life out there in the universe, when statistically, there should be? This is Fermi’s Paradox, and in this new Fantasy Science column, we cover some of the explanations offered for this paradox in movies and TV.
In this all new column in our Fantasy Science series, resident physicist Radha Pyari explains what scientific writing devices can be used to prevent Grandfather Paradoxes in time travel stories.
In this third part of Fantasy Science, we’re going to get into how multiple universes may be possible. We’ll attempt to categorize some of the ones represented in popular fiction, starting off with the film The Golden Compass.
If you are even remotely familiar with technology, science fiction, or the world of computers, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘Turing test’. Let’s explore this test, and the way it’s portrayed and used in Ex Machina.
In this first part of Fantasy Science, our resident physicist Radha Pyari Sandhir explains wormholes and discusses how they are portrayed in film, and explains what the real life science behind them is.