Science Fiction

This one season wonder was a triumph of the sublime and the ridiculous — Before Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV became the huge media force that it is today, it started out as a single European satellite and cable channel in the mid-1980s. It wasn’t very well known back then, but I was lucky enough to live in a town that piped Sky Channel in…

Yes, you read that headline correctly. The latest Stars Wars show, ANDOR, is a major step-up from what Disney — or George Lucas before it — has ever managed with the franchise. …

The film gets the law wrong in order to scare its audience. — The 2002 film Minority Report imagines a near future in which a police division called “Pre-Crime” investigates crimes and arrests suspects before the criminal conduct even occurs. They are able to do this because of a handful of gifted youngsters called “pre-cogs.” The pre-cogs were exposed in utero to a…

The satellite of our planet has always fascinated man. Scientists are unanimous: The moon should not have existed! — It does not obey any of the astrophysical rules and no one has managed to impose the theory of its origin and formation 4 billion years ago. It has been suggested that after the collision with a meteorite, a large chunk of Earth broke off to form the Moon. Or…

As far as we are aware, it is impossible for a human to go faster than light. In reality, no object with the mass you or I possess can move faster than the speed of light in any direction. — Einstein’s theory of relativity seems to say it can’t happen, but what if it could? Some unusual particles can move at twice the speed of light, allowing them to travel back in time. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity is one of the most useful physical theories we have right now.