The plot forces the audience to question whether humans can control the technology they create and if our desire to continually make advancements in technology might be to humanity’s detriment. The novel, ‘Black Hole’, written by Geraldine Stowe, is set on a star colony called ‘Estra’ in the year 2305 where technology has become so advanced that nearly anything is possible. The social comment reminds the audience that even though we live in world full of advanced technology, our negative traits remain the same. This is presented through Dante and what he is forced to go through abuse just because he is different from his society Examples of futuristic and advanced technology are interspersed throughout, ‘I, Robot’, placing the film easily in the science fiction genre. Detective Del Spooner is employed to investigate the apparent suicide of Dr Alfred Lanning who “practically invented robotics.” During Spooner’s quest to uncover the truth, he stumbles upon Lanning’s “unique” creation, Sonny.
The product of years and years of interest in the subject has convinced me personally that life outside of Earth does exist. Through much independent learning using various sources including books, documentaries, scientific journals, and articles I have learned that the idea of aliens and even sightings of them and UFOs has existed just about as long as humanity has. This consistent occurrence of extra-terrestrial experiences throughout history and all over the world verifies and confirms the fact that aliens have visited earth, multiple times in the past, and that extra-terrestrial life undoubtedly exists. Furthermore, it is incredibly egotistical of the human race to believe that we are the sole intelligent beings in this enormous universe. In order to embrace the world around us we must humble ourselves and accept the idea that we are not alone in the very least of manners.
Initially one of only twelve Constitution-class heavy cruisers constructed by Starfleet, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 went on to become one of the Federation’s most celebrated and iconic starships. Five different captains were given command of the Enterprise during her decades of service: Robert April, Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk, Willard Decker, and Spock. Although each of these men had notable careers in Starfleet, it was under the command of Captain (and later Admiral) Kirk that the U.S.S. Enterprise became legendary.
Examples of the Chaos Theory is not just found in mathematics, science, or mechanics, it is used in many literary pieces. In Ray Bradbury’s extraordinary time travel short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” Bradbury illustrates the Chaos Theory in the midst of time travel. In the middle of Ray Bradbury’s short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” Eckels(one of the main characters) mentions that if Lesperance came back in time to mark the T-rexes with red paint, then he must have seen their expedition and known whether or not it was successful. Travis thus explains to Eckels that “that’d be a paradox.”(Bradbury 5) Time travel does not permit a man to meet himself in a different time period. There is no way for them to determine if the expedition was a success or if the group made it out alive.
With him inventing the one of the first telescopes, he could see multiple areas of space never seen before such as Jupiter. The most exceptional of these observations was Venus’ celestial pattern, which was explained by its revolution around the sun. Galileo’s views contradicted that of the Catholic Church and he was immediately put on trial after a letter he wrote to Duchess of Tuscany was discovered.4 Most of Catholic scientific doctrine came from pagan Greek philosophy. Examples of these were Aristotelian physics: the idea that there were only four elements fire, earth, air, and water.4 These ideas were later
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking Written by one of the greatest minds of this century, A Brief History of Time covers the most revolutionary scientists since 340 BC in the fields of subatomic particle physics, theoretical physics, and astrophysics. The subjects of of quantum physics and general relativity are also brought up later in the book as Hawking moves into the subject of the Theory of Everything, or quantum relativity, and the struggles scientists, including Hawking, have gone through to try to understand this and make it into a unified theory. Lastly, Hawking also covers the miraculous four-dimensional spacetime and the scientists who have impacted the field, like Albert Einstein and James Maxwell, throughout the past two centuries to help shape what we now call theoretical particle physics. 340 BC, a greek philosopher by the name of Aristotle began curiously exploring the heavens in a search for an explanation as to what was out there. Aristotle wrote the book On the Heavens that covered two main arguments.
The first international space station was launched in 1998 with the US, Brazil, Japan and Canada In a project known as Freedom. The first crew arrived in October 2000. The ISS is very big, covering a huge amount of five bedrooms. It includes two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a big bay window. It weighs almost a million pounds.
George Lucas was considered a genius of his time, taking Science Fiction movies into a whole new direction with the usage of computer effects and taking his whole movie up into space. However, his true genius exists in adapting current world issues and milestones in a subliminal manner incorporated in his film. His hit movie, Star Wars may have been engendered as an inspiration of the space race and also to fill the emptiness that followed a ephemeral triumph, but it is clear that the underlying message of the movie pertains to the Cold War and all the feuds and struggle between the United States (represented by Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance) and the Soviet Union (represented by Darth Vader and the Imperial Army). The symbolisms of the struggles between two most powerful countries are portrayed not only though props and costume but also through the sounds in the film as well as camera angles used to make the film. Though the United States at the time of the Cold War were not a group of unorganized forces, like the Rebel Alliance, George Lucas uses the rag-tag band of misfits, the Rebel Alliance, to create a twist in the current power dynamics of the cold war, because in fact the United States was equal to, if not greater in strength to the Soviet Union.
Numerous theories were proposed by scientists or religions to explain the beginning of the universe. They were questioned by people believed for their integrity. The big bang theory was challenged by many too, but it has become the model that the scientific community has widely accepted to explain the birth of the universe as it is backed up by many evidences. According to the theory, there is a finite age to the universe. At the very start, the entire universe was about a size of an atom.
This is due to the fact that Muslims believe that we (Humanity) are in the progress of learning and that we will come to understand the truth one day. They would use the idea of the Geocentric and Heliocentric universe. The Geocentric theory was that everything in the solar system was orbiting the Earth and this was believed to be scientific truth among all of humankind. However, as time passed, we discovered that the universe is in fact a heliocentric mode meaning that everything in the solar system orbits the sun. Currently, scientists have found out that even the heliocentric model is not correct as their seems to be two centres to this solar system.