There is one downside to learning science -- physics in particular. Science fiction movies are not viewed the same as when I was a kid. I still love and enjoy Scifi movies and shows, but I have an understanding now of the universe and the laws that govern the universe.

For example I like how scifi movies and tv show overcome interia, Star Trek I think was the leader in addressing the physics of space travel. How did Star Trek overcome this problem -- "interia dampers" this way when the star ship dropped warp speed to sublight speed nobody was crushed into the hull of the space ship. Now "interia dampers" are reference in all scifi movies and shows.

In Star Trek the way people were transported was by beaming them around by the "transportor." This device took matter comverted it to energy then back to matter so the scifi writers had to address the problem of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Bascially the principle states that you can know the speed of an elemently particule, but not precisely the position, or you can know the postion, but not know the speed of the particule. Sooooo, you may be asking what did Star Trek do to overcome this by creating a device called "the Heisenberg compensator"

As a sidebar a few years ago I read of an experiament in Australia where a photon (I think, it has been a few years) was transported some distance, but I have not read anything else on the subject.

For a transportor to work it would require enormous amount of memory, but the cool thing would be copy and paste. Theoretically speaking once the matter was converted to energy the Star Trek people created the pattern buffer which stored an image of the object, so since our bodies are symetrical if a person lost an arm, in the pattern buffer you could copy the one arm and paste it where the missing arm is.

You can not hear sounds in space, it sounds really nice but in Star Terk and Star Wars the sound of lasers being fired and the sound of space ships flying around the galaxy you just can not hear it. Speaking of lasers, you can not see a laser like in the movies, it just does not work that way. To see a laser light you would have to defuse the laser, which defeats the priciple of the laser because a laser is a coherent beam of light.

I still love scifi movies and shows though.