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Article: One step beyond Star Trek; Author examines 'science' in popular science-fiction shows and films.
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- The Boston Herald
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- December 1, 1997
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You might think blunder-busting scientist Lawrence M. Krauss would be a killjoy as a movie companion. Not at all.
To be sure, as a physicist and astronomer with degrees and honors from here to Jupiter, Krauss doesn't exactly see space and time the way the average viewer does. And he did give the Star Trek universe a huge reality check by analyzing its "science" in his best-selling "The Physics of Star Trek."
But Krauss, 43, chairman of the physics department at Case Western Reserve University, genuinely likes science fiction. He enjoys Star Trek, the "X-Files," the "Alien" movies, all that stuff. It's just that he finds real science as intriguing as an ...