Can science fiction be prophetic?
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Of course sci-fi can be prophetic. Look at Jules Verne. On the other hand, reading a Robert Heinlein novel I was amused when the character when to make a ballistics calculation for his space ship and pulled out... a slide rule. I guess they missed a few things. Also, there have been a near infinite amount of predictions in science fiction. They can't all be wrong.
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I KNEW you were going to ask that! \n\nTruthfully, we cannot predict the future, but we can make guesses. Based on what has gone on before, our mind creates patterns which create some order and predictability.
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Keep in mind that a novel is fictional, as in made up imagination content for entertainment purposes, and thus is more entertaining if the basis for the plot and logic is believable. In reality parrellel universes exist in parrellel, not adjacent, and rarely intersect or exchange matter or energy. It is unlikely the exchanges can be instigated, controlled or predicted.\n\n1)  Universes are in parrellel because the cycle of existence disposes of and recycles matter and energy in a non-random fasion, with high concentrations of some types of energy and minimal amounts of others. Each Nuclide and nucleotide has an intention to its existence, and actually requested it's state of being, so to determine which universe is the origin of which nuclide, just ask it. If your listening in the right way, you'll hear it (Not attempting to mock you, this is how I communicate with matter and it works).\n\n2 to 4) these questions are irrelevant, due to an important factor you've failed to account for, besides the fact that this is all fictional. Once something transfers from universe 1 to universe 2 it goes from stable to unstable, or unstable to stable, because the exchange recombines it into different nuclides. You don't really get what you asked for.\n\nThe science you've read is accurate and correct, but you could use some more study hours in the astrophysics and quantum physics theory labs. I'd suggest checking out my source.
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I've seen a lot of Christians take verses out of the Bible and insist that they are "prophecy"... but they're one of the following.\n\n1. Prediction of something that's either very likely or inevitable.\n2. Prediction of something that happens later in the same book.\n3. Completely wrong, out of context, or contradictory to reality.\n4. Prediction of something that happens in another book, but in the context of the author having literary access to the prophecy referenced. \n\nNone of these things qualify as "prophecy". Prophecy is a unique prediction, the event happening on its own without "help" from those who know the prophecy beforehand.
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It certainly would!  What else could you call it without being laughed at?  :-D\n\nI suppose if we ever seriously discussed 'marsquakes' then we'd just use the term 'quake' or 'tremor' - I really don't think the scientific community would use a phrase as 'sci-fi' as 'marsquake'.  We can only hope!
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Theoretically Yes.\nBut then everything doesn't go in order according to numbers in life.\nIf it did however, then we wouldn't have enough processing power to predict it (if there was such a computer big enough it would in turn need a bigger computer to predict its actions and so on ad infinitum).\nSo practically No.
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What he says is the truth. And it seems almost like a prophetic vision, does it not?
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That depends.  In this scenario, is the future set in stone (aka fate) or do we have a role in what happens in the future?
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Not all prophecy comes from reliable sources. Those who see the future can also change it.Etc. Some things might just be misinterpreted. Maybe we won't need anymore religious leaders then. Hopefully we won't be converted to Islam.
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There is "prophecy" in anything people are gullible enough to believe.  Bones, Dice, Cards, Stars, Chicken guts, sayings of 'oracles' at Delphi, tea leaves.  ALL of these things prey (not pray) on the stupidity of people who want answers to the unanswerable, the future, the unresolved past.  Be a skeptic, and ask questions like this one, and do not believe anything just because "it is written", look at the bible contradictions within itself!
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Our Science?  No.\n\nThe science that will develop after Armageddon, when we have 100% use of our brains, perhaps.  We may even develop a way to travel to the other planets without ships.
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I know it will.\n\nPart of the reason is the "stuff written thousands of years ago" that prophesied "the reality of the present."\n\nConsider 2 Timothy 3:1-5 - "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."\n\nSince this has come to pass, I have no doubt that the prophecies for good also will!
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The future of your field is exciting and unlimited!  Your thesis should be centered around (electronics) science fact  vs  science fiction.  Remember Dick Tracy's old wrist radio and Flash Gordon's spaceship?   Fiction then ... Not Now!  It could probably be a best seller  or  movie/tv script.
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With absolute certainty? I'd say no. However, you can predict easy things with near certainty, like: the sun will shine tomorrow and I will wake up. As long as your predictions are obvious/vague/broad, or logically derived from things that are "obvious", your chances are better.\n\nLet's talk about the weird supernatural kind of prophecy. Some people will point out that being aware of the future will enable you to prevent it, but that really depends. If you predict, say, that an important public figure will be assassinated tomorrow. You could convince the government to protect that individual, but how do you know the bodyguard won't turn on that person? You could protect the person, but how do you know you weren't programmed Manchurian-style to carry out the murder without conscious knowledge of it? The weird supernatural kind isn't logically impossible, but there doesn't seem to be strong reason to believe that one can do this.
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yes it will, watch the movie Deliverance
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I hope so! It's actually quite possible that a stargate (or similar device) do exist, but it's also possible that one doesn't exist on this planet. Let's face it, we're not a very technologically advanced race, so even if there was one it would be doubtful that we could successfully operate it, or fully understand how it works for that matter. All in all, the technology is scientifically plausible, assuming that we are wrong about our understanding of a few scientific details (which I might add is entirely within the realm of possibility).\n\nHowever, I feel it necessary to add that I don't think the people of Earth are ready for inter-steller travel just yet. Think about, most of the people of our planet believe that we are the only race in the entire Universe, and believe that anything contradicting this is either a lie or crazy theory. Stargate is even proof of this, note how each race they encounter (with a few exceptions) are well aware of the other races and planets among the stars, yet on Earth the Stargate program must be kept top-secret, why? Because the people of Earth can't (most, actually) can not handle the possibility of life outside our own solar system. This is the crux of our dilemma, the simple fact that the majority of humans on Earth are to close-minded to accept that there are other races besides us. \n\nWell, I kind of got off topic there, but mainly what I am trying to convey is that I believe there really are stargates or similar devices somewhere in the Universe, but I do not think that most Earth dwellers are ready for such a change.
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start with wikipedia, look up Science Fiction.  go from there.