By Barry B. Luokkala
The fabric during this ebook types the foundation of an interdisciplinary, college-level direction, which makes use of technological know-how fiction movie as a automobile for exploring technology recommendations. in contrast to conventional introductory-level classes, the technological know-how content material is prepared in accordance with significant subject matters in technology fiction, with a planned development from the hugely goal and discipline-specific (e.g. Reference Frames; Physics of area go back and forth and Time commute) to the very multi-disciplinary and thought-provoking (e.g. Human Teleportation; technology and Society). Over a hundred references to technological know-how fiction movies and tv episodes are incorporated, spanning greater than a hundred years of cinematic heritage. a few of these are conducive to calculations (solutions included).
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87 7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, MGM 1968). Reference frames: DVD scenes 6, 10 Chapter 2 What Is the Nature of Space and Time? (The Physics of Space Travel and Time Travel) “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey . . ” –The 10th Doctor Doctor Who, “Blink” [1] The most successful science fiction television series in the history of the medium is undoubtedly Doctor Who.
The subscripts r and 1 are the time as measured at a distance r from the gravitational source and the time measured far from any source of gravitational distortion, respectively. The time-dilating effect of General Relativity makes the clocks that are on the surface of the Earth run slower by about five parts in ten billion, compared to clocks in orbit (farther from the center of the Earth). These two time-dilating effects (gravitation and relative speed) are in the opposite direction and are of different magnitudes.
J. Abrams creates an alternate universe scenario, touched off by a catastrophic accident. A star within the territory of the Romulan Empire is about to become a supernova and (so we are told) threatens to destroy the galaxy. The proposed solution is to create a black hole inside the star and stop the supernova from expanding. Unfortunately, the plan is executed too late to prevent the destruction of Romulus, the home planet of the Romulans. But what does occur changes the course of history, or rather transports the audience into an alternate universe, in which the flow of history is completely different from the one that generations of Star Trek fans knew [33].