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Posts Tagged ‘fringe’

The Pauli Exclusion Principle

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Last Thursday, Fringe made a grave mistake in science.

Yes, Fringe is all about mistakes in (fake) science.

This mistake, however, holds the singular claim (for this show) of pissing me off.

The mistake?  Nina Sharp was explaining to Olivia about why the two universes cannot be brought together – one will inevitably be destroyed.

Yes, that’s a pretty common theory and it always shows up in science fiction.  In fact, I have absolutely no problem with that – it’s effing theoretical physics so do whatever the hell you want.

Just don’t mutilate quantum mechanics whilst you do so.

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Women in TV

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Maybe it’s just the shows I watch or the books I read, but I find one strange similarity between them all… there is rarely, if ever, a woman as the ultimate lead character.  In fact, off the top of my head, I can only name Star Trek: Voyager and Sanctuary as shows I’ve watched with a female lead.  But I’ve got a notoriously bad memory, so let’s make a list (in a rough order of air time from the 2008-2009 season).

Buuut I’ll put it under a cut cuz I really hate uncut long articles on blogs.

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