Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
Andrew May
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Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science

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People are used to seeing "fake physics" in science fiction - concepts like faster-than-light travel, antigravity and time travel to name a few. The fiction label ought to be a giveaway, but some SF writers - especially those with a background in professional science - are so adept at "technobabble" that it can be difficult to work out what is fake and what is real. To confuse matters further, Isaac Asimov's 1948 piece about the fictitious time-travelling substance thiotimoline was written, not as a short story, but in the form of a spoof research paper.The boundaries between fact and fiction ...