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	Chapter 2: Venus Through the Telescope
		Shrink Earth to the size of an official NBA basketball and, on the same scale, Venus is the size of a soccer ball.
		Science fiction writers have always sought to shape their extrapolations of the future to be consistent with the latest scientific ideas of the day.
		Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the "golden age" of science fiction, ended with the advent of the "golden age" of planetary exploration in the 1960's.
	www.funkyscience.net /ch2.html (2018 words)

	Alpha and Omega: Reconciling Science and Faith
		Science can't even attempt to answer the ethical questions it raises, because of the moral neutrality it enforces upon itself.
		Science, defined in popular terms, is knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws — especially as obtained, tested and refined through the scientific method.
		The way science will regain its soul, the way science and faith will begin one day to work together to serve the truth and advance real human dignity, is through the witness of intelligent women and men of faith, like yourselves.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/science/sc0028.html (3222 words)

	DNA Publications Purchases Science Fiction Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I entered the science fiction and fantasy field eight years ago, and since then I've watched the rest of the field shrink while DNA Publications has continued to grow.
		If you wanted a science fiction or fantasy fix you had to read either a book or a magazine, there was no where else to get it.
		Then that store notices that they're not selling any genre fiction, and instead of asking themselves what they can do to increase the sales of genre fiction, they either stop selling genre fiction or they shrink the category, further exacerbating the problem.
	www.dnapublications.com /stories/SFCpub.htm (1144 words)

	Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Though a fantasy, "Dark Vision" used a scientific explanation, and it proved that some science fiction is merely a fantasy of another world, while some earthbound weird stories are science fictional in their methods.
		In the region of Golden Age science fiction, one of Frank Long’s finest contributions to Astounding Science Fiction was "To Follow Knowledge" (Dec. 1942), an attempt to illustrate how the events in the life of the universe, the planet, and the human being live in frames of time that coexist side-by-side.
		As the magazine market began to shrink, science fiction books began to crop up in its place—and though few volumes had been published years earlier, the blooming era of the paperback book brought forth the birth of the paperback science fiction anthology.
	www.thevine.net /~fortress/fblhist.htm (4221 words)

	SF's Wild Ride: Publishing in the '90s
		The scariest thing about science fiction in the 1990s is how accurately it was forecast by the cyberpunks of the '80s.
		We may not have all the neat hardware Gibson and his fellow writers predicted, but their chilling vision of a mega-corporate future is rapidly coming true, and SF book publishing is right in the middle of it.
		Science fiction is about change, and in the last decade there's been more change for SF writers to explore than ever before.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/sf_nineties_991227.html (1585 words)

	Resizing (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In popular works, many of the physical effects of such shrinking are often ignored, notably changes in mass or density, and the scaling of certain physical variables.
		In reality, excessive growth is usually related to some illness; victims of fictional excessive growth, however, are generally more than healthy, and have powers proportionate to their size (in the same way that the physical limitations related to size in reality are ignored).
		In science fiction/horror B-movies, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, enlargement of people or creatures to monstrous size (often accomplished via radiation) was a common theme.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Resizing_(fiction) (800 words)

	BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:The Runners-Up -- 282 (5397): 2157 -- Science
		Armstrong, "The Vision of the Pore," Science 280, 56 (3 April 1998).
		In science fiction, teleportation moves people and things around, but in physics it means reconstructing a quantum state at a new location, so that information, rather than matter or energy, is moved about.
		Microchips are already the foundation of the electronics industry, but in 1998 chip technologies left their electronic roots behind and moved decisively into biology and other fields.
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/282/5397/2157 (3470 words)

	Science Fiction - Alpha Blog
		Science Fiction is when the truth is stranger than fact and that we need to look at the world of science fiction.
		Worldwar: In the Balance is an alternate history and science fiction novel by Harry Turtledove.
		In Turtledove's fictional history, he, together with most other Polish Jews, are saved at the last moment from annihilataion by the arrival of the aliens who close down Auschwitz.
	scififansa.blogspot.com (7137 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Science FACTion — Fraud in Science
		The columns, which have the umbrella title Science FACTION: Commentaries from the Cutting Edge of Science, are produced by Barbara Saxberg in Toronto, and syndicated to local CBC Radio stations across Canada.
		The same is true in the world of science: a process called "peer review," in which anonymous experts read through and comment on papers submitted to scientific journals, is supposed to catch errors in fact and logic.
		Although stories of fraud in science don't get nearly as much press as do cases of journalistic wrongdoing, they can be far more damaging.
	www.sfwriter.com /fafraud.htm (754 words)

	Self-Serve Brains: Science News Online, Feb. 11, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The concept of identity theft assumes an entirely new meaning for people with brain injuries that rob them of their sense of self—the unspoken certainty that one exists as a person in a flesh—bounded body with a unique set of life experiences and relationships.
		Researchers still debate whether the self is the internal engine of willful behavior or simply a useful fiction that makes a person feel responsible for his or her actions.
		At the same time, the woman feels her waist and hips shrink by several inches to accommodate the imagined hand movements.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20060211/bob9.asp (2872 words)

	The Incredible Shrinking Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man.
		Scott Carey (Grant Williams) is contaminated by a radioactive cloud and pesticide, and slowly begins shrinking.
		Currently there are plans for a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man as a comedy which will revolve around a magician (slated to be Eddie Murphy) who suddenly starts to dwindle and frantically searches for a way to revert back to his previous size.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man (439 words)

	Crank Dot Net \| science
		However, with evolution of science and the advent of uncertainty theory and quantum science, it became clear that matter could not be understood in isolation of mind and consciousness.
		Science evolved from the study of interaction of matter to the interaction of fields and concluded that quantum fields is the physical reality and this physical reality, arises from a unified field.
		Unbridled gullibility can destroy science, but unbridled skepticism is no less a threat because it brings both the excessive preservation of the status quo and the supression of unconventional ideas.
	www.crank.net /science.html (6016 words)

	Libraries in Science Fiction
		One of science fiction's techniques is to analyze concepts for their irreducible meanings and then to synthesize new and sometimes surprising combinations of ideas out of that basic material.
		The boy stares in awe at all the marvelous books: Here is the information necessary to produce electricity again, to rebuild civilization, but the son dies while still a boy and with him dies the art of reading and the potential that lies in books.
		Science fiction consists of the hopes and dreams and fears (for some dreams are nightmares) of a technically based society." He also said that science fiction allows us to practice in a no-practice area.
	www2.ku.edu /~sfcenter/library.htm (3659 words)

	Infoed: Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In tribute to the 150th anniversary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science is publishing a weekly series of personal viewpoints on the theme of science and society.
		Science for the Millennium, an interactive "exposition" filled with exhibits on science concepts.
		Science news coverage, extensive TV archives, interviews with scientific luminaries and a forum to ask or answer questions and discuss issues.
	www.infoed.net /science.html (6333 words)

	ScienceDaily: Nano-Probes Allow An Inside Look At Cell Nuclei
		On the right, a large aggregate of immobile dots is indicated with the red arrow, while the circled stars and arrows indicate dots that move.
		Materials science -- Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering.
		Biochemistry Molecular Biology of Plants is a major contribution to the plant sciences literature, superbly edited by three distinguished scientists, Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/03/050326103428.htm (2117 words)

	Benford and Zebrowski: The SPACE.com Interview
		He is perhaps better known, though, for his award-winning and bestselling science fiction.
		The more complex answer is that science and technology have an effect on human lives, and that this effect can only grow more profound, and that is a fit subject for fictional explorations.
		Literature of the traditional kind assesses what has been; science fiction looks forward through the shadows that possibility casts backward into our times, and attempts to see the dramatic changes that will work on human character.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/benford_zebrowski_000322.html (2132 words)

	News Indexed by Topic - SCIENCE FICTION
		Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (University of Texas Press, $24.95), in which Dinello explores the chasm between the rosy daydreams of scientists and the more jaundiced nightmares of sci-fi writers and filmmakers.
		Unlike their fictional counterparts in the West, apparently hell-bent on destruction, robots in Japan are seen as forces for good, as borne out by their role in rescue work.
		Science fiction traditionally focuses on the impact of imaginary technologies or sciences on humans.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/newstopics/scifi.html (14043 words)

	Black Hole Life Preserver: Don't get sucked in without one: Science News Online, Aug. 30, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kept at waist level, the ring would exert an upward tug on your feet and a downward pull on your head, counterbalancing the fl hole's uneven tug on different parts of your body.
		As the traveler approached the fl hole and the tidal forces from it increased, the ring would shrink and exert correspondingly larger countertidal forces.
		The idea of compensating tidal forces using a ring of compact matter isn't quite "something no one has shown before." A concept based on the same principles was analyzed 20 years ago by physicist Robert L. Forward, who published the details in a paper in Physical Review and his science-fiction novel Dragon's Egg.
	www.sciencenews.org /20030830/fob3.asp (710 words)

	HW physics - Relic Entertainment Message Boards
		Wrong science would be to acheive FTL speeds simply by accelerating.
		In fan fiction of many TV shows, movies, and Homeworld, where Newtonian physics is ignored, one can probably follow precedent and ignore the laws of kinematics.
		And it really isn't wrong science yet to have a device which alters quantum wavefunctions so an object tunnels instead of waiting around for it to happen on its own.
	www.strategyplanet.com /homeworld/rbarchive/fiction/HWphysics.htm (4677 words)

	Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)
		Or perhaps it would be more precise to say that it was used to create a sensation, for Bruce Sterling and other Gibson associates declared that a new kind of science fiction had appeared which rendered merely ordinary SF obsolete.
		The fiction may not be widely read, but through movies and comics it has created one of the defining mythologies of our time.
		The suspect is meant to shrink from the first into the "protective" arms of the other and reveal his or her guilt.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html (6101 words)

	Amazon.com: Pig and the Shrink: Books: Pamela Todd,Jeff Seaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shrink--so named because his mother is a psychologist and his dad is a neurosurgeon--figures that performing a handwriting analysis on his middle-school science teacher as a classic example of a criminal mind would be perfectly well received.
		Shrink thinks that while he's proving his scientific prowess, he's also helping Pig become a better person.
		But the truth is, Shrink--born of ambitious, controlled parents--has a lot to learn from the bon vivant Angelo Pighetti and his "noisy, messy, out of control" life at his family's pizzeria.
	www.amazon.com /Pig-Shrink-Pamela-Todd/dp/044041587X (1512 words)

	Theory of Universal Relativity - Shrinking Theory
		When you cover a distance, you are in fact shrinking at a certain rate, the rate being the speed at which you shrink.
		Then when we shrink or enhance through space-time, we have to give up on this time, space changes, still we are travelling at the speed of light.
		The more you shrink and reach the Plank length, the more the very large is shrinking for you and then becomes the very small, whilst you are now living in the very large.
	www.crownedanarchist.com /Shrinking.htm (14655 words)

	Science
		Now with our present-day science, it seems awfully hard to get to even the nearest stars in a reasonable time.
		Back then, there were a few problems in the Land Of Science, but they were too hard to solve and so the physicists just ignored them - they swept them under the carpet.
		All you had to do was shrink the fabric of spacetime in front of your spaceship, and at the same time expand it behind your space ship.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/hastings/155/science.html (4544 words)

	LiveScience.com - Old Brains Shrink But Work Just as Well
		Such bones could come in handy in those circumstances in which chunks of bone in the human body go missing.
		Older minds do sometimes fail, of course, owing to conditions such as Alzheimer's that scientists are only beginning to understand.
		"It is known that the brain shrinks over the course of a person's life, although the exact trajectory is not well understood, and there are huge individual differences," Christensen said.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/050610_brain_shrink.html (367 words)

	Mankind or machine?
		An algorithm originally developed for biotechnology has been applied in the local telecommunications field and computer science techniques have been applied in fields such as artificial intelligence, physics and voice recognition, so we monitor closely developments in both fields," she said.
		In terms of the convergence of computers and biological material, many researchers believe that computers of the future will not be built by factory machines but by living cells, such as bacteria.
		The American Association for the Advancement of Science has described how yeast organisms can now make wires, and how solar panels can be built using substances produced by sea sponges.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2003/november/machine.htm (1152 words)

	ScienceDaily: Laser Technique Used To Build Micro-Structures On A Human Hair Without Harming It
		While this idea is currently in the realm of science fiction, our results represent an important step in that direction.
		Lasers Spin Tiny Objects In Science Study (May 7, 2001) -- Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you'd have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the...
		Bringing forth the mysteries of Ayurveda from the classical Sanskrit texts, Dr. Lad presents this ages-old science in a framework that is clearly accessible to the modern student while remaining true...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/05/050523092146.htm (1773 words)

	MIT technology used to shrink tumor - MIT News Office
		Now "perfect mirror" technology, developed by MIT researchers, is being used to shoot a laser through a spaghetti-thin, flexible fiber to attack tumors and other diseased tissue in highly targeted, minimally invasive surgery.
		The fiber originated with the "perfect mirror" created in 1998 by Yoel Fink, associate professor of materials science and engineering; John D. Joannopoulos, the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics; and Edwin L. Thomas, the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
		Raphael Bueno, left, and team use a new MIT technology to shrink a patient's lung tumor by more than 90 percent during laser surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2006/omniguide.html (837 words)

	Science News for Kids: SciFiZone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They want to stop a boy in their class from teasing Pleskit so they borrow a shrinking ray.
		But if Pleskit had thought before he acted and checked who was coming through the door (they thought the boy was coming through), then he wouldn't have shrunk the teacher, or Tim.
		Tell us about your favorite science fiction book, in 250 words or less.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20040929/SciFiBooks.asp (574 words)

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