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79 relations: Ancient (Stargate), Andromeda (novel), Anne McCaffrey, Ansible, Armada (novel), Avatar (2009 film), Axiomatic quantum field theory, Bell test experiments, Causality (physics), Charles Stross, Cities in Flight, Cordwainer Smith, Crystal Singer, Del Rey Books, Delayed choice quantum eraser, E. E. Smith, Elizabeth Moon, EPR paradox, Ernest Cline, Extrasensory perception, Faster-than-light, Foundation series, Frank Herbert, Grandfather paradox, Gregory Keyes, Group velocity, Hainish Cycle, Howard Tayler, Information, Instrumentality of Mankind, Iron Sunrise, Isaac Asimov, Ivan Yefremov, Jack Williamson, James Blish, Known Space, Larry Niven, Lensman series, Light, Liu Cixin, Lorentz covariance, MacGuffin, Many-worlds interpretation, Mass Effect, Near and far field, No-communication theorem, Philip Pullman, Pseudoscience, Quantum entanglement, Quantum nonlocality, ..., Quantum teleportation, Richard K. Morgan, Robert A. Heinlein, Schlock Mercenary, SETI Institute, Signal velocity, Singularity Sky, Special relativity, St. Martin's Press, Star Trek, Stargate, Stephen R. Donaldson, Synchronicity, Tachyon, Tachyonic antitelephone, Tachyonic field, Takeshi Kovacs, Telepathy, The Age of Unreason, The Gap Cycle, The Three-Body Problem (novel), Time for the Stars, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vatta's War, Warp drive, Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory, With Folded Hands, World Scientific, Wormhole. Expand index (29 more) »
Ancient (Stargate)
The Ancients (in their own tongue Anquietas) are a fictional humanoid race in the Stargate franchise.
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Andromeda (novel)
Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale a.k.a. Andromeda Nebula (Туманность Андромеды, Tumannost' Andromedy) is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov,Sergey Klimanov's Home Page.
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Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-born writer who emigrated to Ireland and was best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.
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Ansible
An ansible is a category of fictional device or technology capable of instantaneous or faster-than-light communication.
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Armada (novel)
Armada is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, published on July 14, 2015 by Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House).
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Avatar (2009 film)
Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver.
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Axiomatic quantum field theory
Axiomatic quantum field theory is a mathematical discipline which aims to describe quantum field theory in terms of rigorous axioms.
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Bell test experiments
A Bell test experiment or Bell's inequality experiment, also simply a Bell test, is a real-world physics experiment designed to test the theory of quantum mechanics in relation to two other concepts: the principle of locality and Einstein's concept of "local realism".
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Causality (physics)
Causality is the relationship between causes and effects.
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Charles Stross
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964) is an award-winning British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and fantasy.
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Cities in Flight
Cities in Flight is a four-volume series of science fiction stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels.
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Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith was the pen-name used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works.
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Crystal Singer
The Crystal Singer, or Crystal Singer in the U.S., is a young adult, science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey, first published by Severn House in 1982.
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Del Rey Books
Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House and, in turn, by Penguin Random House.
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Delayed choice quantum eraser
A delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, first performed by Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S. P. Kulik, Y. H. Shih and Marlan O. Scully, and reported in early 1999, is an elaboration on the quantum eraser experiment that incorporates concepts considered in Wheeler's delayed choice experiment.
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E. E. Smith
Edward Elmer Smith (also E. E. Smith, E. E. Smith, Ph.D., E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, or—to his family—Ted; May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series.
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Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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EPR paradox
The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox or the EPR paradox of 1935 is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics with which Albert Einstein and his colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR) claimed to demonstrate that the wave function does not provide a complete description of physical reality, and hence that the Copenhagen interpretation is unsatisfactory; resolutions of the paradox have important implications for the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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Ernest Cline
Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter.
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Extrasensory perception
Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense or second sight, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.
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Faster-than-light
Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communication and travel are the conjectural propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light.
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Foundation series
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.
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Grandfather paradox
The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.
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Gregory Keyes
Gregory Keyes is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names J. Gregory Keyes and Greg Keyes.
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Group velocity
The group velocity of a wave is the velocity with which the overall shape of the wave's amplitudes—known as the modulation or envelope of the wave—propagates through space.
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Hainish Cycle
The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Howard Tayler
Howard V. Tayler (born February 29, 1968, in Florida) is the award-winning creator of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary.
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Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.
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Instrumentality of Mankind
In the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, the Instrumentality of Mankind refers both to Smith's personal future history and universe and to the central government of humanity.
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Iron Sunrise
Iron Sunrise is a 2004 hard science fiction novel by author Charles Stross, which follows the events in Singularity Sky.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Ivan Yefremov
Ivan Antonovich (real patronymic Antipovich) Yefremov (Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; April 22, 1908 – October 5, 1972), last name sometimes spelled Efremov, was a Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker.
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Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988.
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James Blish
James Benjamin Blish (–) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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Known Space
Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.
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Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.
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Lensman series
The Lensman series is a series of science fiction novels by American author Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese science fiction writer.
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Lorentz covariance
In relativistic physics, Lorentz symmetry, named for Hendrik Lorentz, is an equivalence of observation or observational symmetry due to special relativity implying that the laws of physics stay the same for all observers that are moving with respect to one another within an inertial frame.
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MacGuffin
In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation.
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Many-worlds interpretation
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse.
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Mass Effect
Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third-person shooter video game series developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows, with the third installment also released on the Wii U. The fourth game was released on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2017.
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Near and far field
The near field and far field are regions of the electromagnetic field (EM) around an object, such as a transmitting antenna, or the result of radiation scattering off an object.
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No-communication theorem
In physics, the no-communication theorem or no-signaling principle is a no-go theorem from quantum information theory which states that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, by making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but are incompatible with the scientific method.
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Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole.
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Quantum nonlocality
In theoretical physics, quantum nonlocality most commonly refers to the phenomenon by which measurements made at a microscopic level contradict a collection of notions known as local realism that are regarded as intuitively true in classical mechanics.
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Quantum teleportation
Quantum teleportation is a process by which quantum information (e.g. the exact state of an atom or photon) can be transmitted (exactly, in principle) from one location to another, with the help of classical communication and previously shared quantum entanglement between the sending and receiving location.
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Richard K. Morgan
Richard Morgan, known as Richard K. Morgan in the U.S., (born 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy author.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (See also the biography at the end of For Us, the Living, 2004 edition, p. 261. July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer.
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Schlock Mercenary
Schlock Mercenary is a comedic webcomic written and drawn by Howard Tayler.
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SETI Institute
The SETI Institute is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe, and to apply the knowledge gained to inspire and guide present and future generations.
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Signal velocity
The signal velocity is the speed at which a wave carries information.
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Singularity Sky
Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by author Charles Stross, published in 2003.
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Special relativity
In physics, special relativity (SR, also known as the special theory of relativity or STR) is the generally accepted and experimentally well-confirmed physical theory regarding the relationship between space and time.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Stargate
Stargate is a science fiction media franchise based on the film written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.
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Stephen R. Donaldson
Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series.
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Synchronicity
Synchronicity (Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.
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Tachyon
A tachyon or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always moves faster than light.
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Tachyonic antitelephone
A tachyonic antitelephone is a hypothetical device in theoretical physics that could be used to send signals into one's own past.
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Tachyonic field
A tachyonic field, or simply tachyon, is a field with an imaginary mass.
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Takeshi Kovacs
Takeshi Lev Kovacs (the word for "smith") is the protagonist of the books Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan, which take place in or around the 26th century.
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Telepathy
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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The Age of Unreason
The Age of Unreason is a series of four novels written by Gregory Keyes.
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The Gap Cycle
The Gap Cycle (published 1991–1996 by Bantam Books and reprinted by Gollancz in 2008) is a science fiction story, told in a series of 5 books, written by Stephen R. Donaldson.
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The Three-Body Problem (novel)
The Three-Body Problem is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin.
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Time for the Stars
Time for the Stars is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the Heinlein juveniles.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.
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Vatta's War
Vatta's War is a science fiction series by Texan writer Elizabeth Moon, comprising five books: Trading in Danger (2003), Marque and Reprisal (2004) (Moving Target in UK and Australia), Engaging the Enemy (2006), Command Decision (2007), and Victory Conditions (2008).
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Warp drive
A warp drive is a fictitious faster-than-light (FTL) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction works, most notably Star Trek.
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Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory
The Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory (also called the Wheeler–Feynman time-symmetric theory), named after its originators, the physicists Richard Feynman and John Archibald Wheeler, is an interpretation of electrodynamics derived from the assumption that the solutions of the electromagnetic field equations must be invariant under time-reversal transformation, as are the field equations themselves.
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With Folded Hands
"With Folded Hands..." is a 1947 science fiction novelette by American writer Jack Williamson.
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World Scientific
World Scientific Publishing is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals headquartered in Singapore.
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Wormhole
A wormhole is a concept that represents a solution of the Einstein field equations: a non-trivial resolution of the Ehrenfest paradox structure linking separate points in spacetime.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_communication
