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[–] amgine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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."

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could see a person who reads and cares about scientific non fiction content might be easily bothered by how often reversing polarity solves the problem.

Some people just don't like consuming fictional content as a passtime.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days 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.