• amgine@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    He knew those things to teach you but didn’t like Star Trek? Was he a Star Wars fan?

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      1 month ago

      I don’t think Star Trek is very hard sci-fi.

      Edit: to say that, I don’t think an interest in physics will naturally lead you to space fiction. And I don’t think “space” is the natural conclusion of “physics.”

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        1 month ago

        Compared to Star Wars, Star Trek is pretty fkin hard scifi.

        Star Trek isn’t hard hard scifi, no, there’s a bunch of completely soft fantasy elements like the holodecks and whatnot, but compared to Star Wars, it’s still pretty hard.

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      No, he was a physicist. So he used examples of warp drive and time dilation along with why there is a Heisenberg compensator in the transporter.