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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
What about near instant travel as in Dune? Is that fantasy because the spacing guild navigators mutated and use their mind alone or science fiction because folding space at least doesn't violate FTL travel? If computers were allowed, and they used some device to fold space, does it become pure science fiction?
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When the current level of understanding of the physical world leaves us with around 85% of the universe's mass described as "dark matter" and around 25% of its energy density described as "dark energy", pretty much anything goes for me in science fiction
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(That even though my original university education was in physics)