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Is the audience laughing at Dr Alexander Murry's presentation?
In the 2018 film adaptation by Jennifer Lee of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, there is a scene where Dr Alexander Murry (henceforth Dr Murry even if his wife is also Dr Murry), played by ...
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Cosmic topology in Greg Egan's Orthogonal Universe
Eventually the people in the universe of Greg Egan's "Orthogonal" series figure out the topology of their cosmos.
But then they say the opposite, that
because of the presence of matter. So what ...
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What was the first story where a universal constant had a different value?
In some stories, the value of a universal constant is different than it is reality. For example, in Going Postal:
'Something like that, sir, probably, something like that,' said Groat.
'Three and ...
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