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The 14th Universe: Experiment status – Highly Classified A Science Fiction by Yasiru Chandira, 1st Year Undergraduate, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo දිනය – 2040 / 2 / 15වේලාව – මධ්යම රාත්රියට ආසන්නස්ථානය – ආර්ක්ටික් භූ විද්යා පර්යෙීීීශන මධ්යස්ථානය Views: 44
Solaris: A Brainy Journey to the Great Unknown
A visionary work of first-contact science fiction by the Kafka prize winner, Polish writer Stanislaw Lem saw the light of the day in 1961. It was non-other than ‘Solaris’, which has later been adapted for or inspired popular music, theatre, operas, ballet, video games, and movies by Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh in 1972, and […]
A Spectacular Journey Seeking Phenomenal Exploits: Delta-v Space Navigation
As the days pass by, science and technology are escalating at breakneck speed, giving a world of wonders that humans never ever even thought of or even imagined centuries ago. This development is evidently an enormous and rather influential one, in which the whole of humankind, one day, would be able to conquer the space, […]
A Daring Feat Of Speculative Fiction – Neal Stephenson’s ANATHEM
“Welcome to a world that only Neal Stephenson could create: math as religion! Amidst a tumult of squabbling, consumerist societies stand a handful of monastic enclaves where logic and science are sacred. When the entire planet is threatened, order and chaos make very strange bedfellows. Anathem is a cerebral romp!” Hap Houlihan, The Morris Book […]
A Scientific Excursion through Cosmic Time and Origin
Penned in the year 1977, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book for General Non-fiction, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, is a great reading adventure on the introspection into the evolution and nature of human intellect and animal brain. The author of this work, Carl Edward Sagan, is an American astronomer who […]
Hidden Figures: Not Hidden Anymore
Nominated for “Best Picture” in the 2017 Academy Awards (Oscars), “Hidden Figures” was a major box-office success in 2017. It is a screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi based on the book of the same title by Margot Lee Shetterly. ‘Hidden Figures” is far from yet another mere title. It depicts three veiled components […]
The Martian: A Story of Survival on a Desolate Planet
Directed by Ridley Scott, “The Martian” is a story about the will to survive calculated to get under your skin. Initially released on the 24th of September 2015, it is a sci-fi cinematic swiftness adapted from the same name, The Martian, a novel by Andy Weir. It is a riveting story portraying an astronaut who […]
The Story of the NERDS, Bazinga!
Penny: What are you, some kind of nerd?Leonard: Not ‘some kind of nerd’. I’m the King of nerds. Season 05, Episode 13 – “The Recombination Hypothesis” The big bang theory is all about the four kings of nerds who spend their time on science, playing video games, watching sci-fi movies, and reading comic books. Nerd […]
Frozen in Time
Imagine a world no longer oppressed by diseases. Those abnormal conditions that disrupt the structure and function of our bodies; any harmful divergence would finally disperse and evanesce. Yet, we would still die. If not for another reason, we could die of old age, as we do age. Death approaches us slowly but surely. What […]
Of “Interstellar”: A Marvel of Space Travel
Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,“ the smart sentimentalism which opened in theatres across the United States, delves into black holes, wormholes, and space travel, apparently taking scientific concepts seriously. Most renowned theoretical physicist Kip Thorne acting as an adviser and executive producer on “Interstellar” has brought to light a story that has not been experienced cinematically before. “Interstellar,” being […]