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     sweet430@hotmail.com "sweet" wrote:

In fact you have it backwards. All sci-fi has evolved from the latest know
theories. Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, etc. were all possibilities
of the latest greatest physocs theory. I was a big fan of sci-fi at one
time. But pc has taken it over so that it has become soft, cuddly and oh
sooo puke-able(sp?). Today's sci-fi is nothing more than soap-oper in space.
P-freakin'-period-U.!)

Science is worth bugger all in abstract.  Without humanity it means 
nothing.

Besides that, no self-respecting scientist would spend time wondering if the
imaginings of an artsy type are true.

You mean artsy types like, oh, Robert L. Forward, or Isaac Asimov or 
others?

I have several productive post-doctoral research scientists as friends, and 
they would disagree with your assertion.

"All of nature is physics; everything else is stamp collecting." -Ernst
Rutherford

Rutherford was a specialist, and an obsessively focussed one at that.  It 
is easy to take a soundbite out of context.  All of nature is indeed 
governed by physics, but that is not its only value.
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